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Just back from a thought-inspiring week's break in the middle Rhine valley - and a reminder of the achievements of Hildegard of Bingen, Field Marshall Blucher and Johannes Gutenberg. Last year I was able to comment on those of Martin Luther and Friedrich Ebert.
Three points for reflection
1. Does Damscheid (beautiful village in the Rhein-Hunsruck-Kreis, population 640) need a Mayor and, if so, what follows from that decision?
2. In entities where the political tradition is of one where what is not permitted is forbidden, how easy is it for open and competitive market economies to emerge?
3. What are the consequences for 21st century Europe of the fact that Germany was Europe's battlefield for so many centuries?
More on these in the coming posts - and the link to the idea of a true union of peoples
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More views than MikeChimeri.com! January 27, 2010Posted by Mike C. in Uncategorized.
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Today, The Mike Chimeri Blog surpassed MikeChimeri.com in views/visits. As I type, MikeChimeri.com has 13,212 visits. The Mike Chimeri Blog has 13,307 views and counting. It took only 21 months to get as many views as my website has in 4 1/2 years.
Thank you to all for visiting this blog.
11:04 PM UPDATE: There were 278 views today, a new one day record.
Evening Jazz on Tuesdays and Thursdays! January 5, 2010Posted by Mike C. in Jazz, Music, Personal, Radio.
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Starting tonight, you can hear me host “Evening Jazz” on 88.1 FM WCWP. I’m hosting Tuesdays and, for now, Thursdays from 7PM to 9PM Eastern.
The show runs Monday through Thursday. Mondays and Wednesdays are hosted by Fred Camin.
Listen and enjoy!
1/24 AM UPDATE: I promoted my “Evening Jazz” involvement in a thread at The Magic Island BBS.
Happy 2010! January 1, 2010Posted by Mike C. in Uncategorized.
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Here’s hoping you all have a happy, healthy, and maybe even wealthy 2010.
Bold & Fresh Tour at Westbury! January 22, 2010Posted by Mike C. in Commentary, Media, News, Personal, Radio, TV.
Tomorrow night, Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck’s Bold & Fresh Tour kicks off at the Capital One Theatre at Westbury. The show sold out only days after tickets went on sale. The same can be said for all other venues on the tour::
As a result, the movie simulcast site said this:!
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‐term-°©‐perpetuating processes, and claims to productivity. That finance needs and depends upon production, both rhetorically and materially, can perhaps be utilized to hold finance accountable to such claims.Cultural Anthropology | Journal of the Society for Cultural Anthropology
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January 16th, 2010
Top 10 UltraSuperNew Projects of 2009
This was originally going to be a new year post, but was delayed because of some happy distractions for me personally. So now we have an even better day to release this, the 3rd Anniversay of UltraSuperNew Inc!
Back in January 16, 2007, me and Marc started up USN in some shared office space in Shibuya. 3 years later we have grown to a good sized team working with some great clients and getting more and more opportunities to “do our thing” from our office in Harajuku.
So, as we get kicked off into 2010 and start on a fresh year with many new opportunities and expectations, we have taken a moment to reflect on all that was achieved in 2009 (ie. Year 3) at UltraSuperNew Inc.
On our final day in the office for 2009, we spent a little time discussing our favorite projects for the year and for me, this past year was really something to be proud of. We managed to step it up to the next level this year, and even though some days it seemed like a tornado of different things all demanding attention, we managed to achieve a lot. In the end, keeping the list down to 10 projects was actually very hard, this could have been a much longer list.
So, without further ado, lets get the list going.
1. Missing Wheels (client : Red Bull)
In order to promote the call for entry for the Red Bull Box Cart Race, we bought 70 second hand bicycles, took off parts and placed them around the city with obvious signs that read “We have borrowed your wheel. We needed it to build our box cart for the Red Bull Box Cart Race and will return it to you after the race.”
We managed to create a new type of media with the bicycles, utilizing something that is in plain sight all over the place in busy shopping areas of Tokyo. Even though we had to answer some questions from the police since they were wondering why all these bicycles had no wheels, they found we were behaving completely legally and even complimented us on the idea.
The result was a lot of attention for the race, discussion online and off and in the end we managed to get about three times our goal for the number of entries for the race.
2. Crowdcast (client : Red Bull)
Red Bull Crowdcast is a new platform we developed for Red Bull to get people attending their events more involved with the brand and create a new source of media surrounding events.
Attendees at events can use a simple mobile application to upload photos of the event to a central server. The Red Bull Crowdcast website then publishes the content and provides a combined stream of images in real time back to mobile and PC users at the event or at home, as well as digital screens at the event. When watching in slideshow mode, images can take just a few seconds from submitting to appearing in the slideshow.
The images submitted are more spontaneous than the general material that is collected around events and are published much faster.
We did everything on this project from the concept to the programming to the running of the system, and have many more plans for the next year to take this to the next level in 2010.
3. Pump 20th Anniversary Party (client : Reebok)
We created a 20th anniversary party with a difference for the Reebok Pump at Mado Lounge on the 52nd floor of Roppongi Hills building in central Tokyo.
Apart from the general logistics, branding and planning, we had three key special features for the event that made this one a special one for me. The shoe display, projection screen and dance performance.
Reebok made 20 collaboration models with select specialty sneaker stores around the world, and we needed to display them in an interesting way at the event. The solution in the end was a special vacuum pack that we ended up doing by hand at the office because nobody had machinery the right size to do the sealing of the vacuum. The vacuum packed shoes were then hung on a custom built display. This one took a lot of hard work to execute, but ultimately an incredibly satisfying result that people really took notice of.
For the main space I wanted to make sure we had an interesting way to show the shoes as well, so we designed a special screen in the shape of a shoe silhouette that we then projected images of the 20 collaboration shoes on to. The footage was also programmed on a cycle with sound reactivity and some special tweak controls. The end effect was a floating shoe that pulsed to the beat sitting over the room with a backdrop of Tokyo city lights stretching out below.
Finally for entertainment, in addition to headliner Captain Funk, we had a dance performance by what I term “The ghosts of 1989″. Three guys in neon costume pulling off crazy b-boy dance moves.
We had a packed event and generated a lot of press and buzz around the 20th anniversary. By the end I was so tired from putting everything together I couldn’t even make it to the after party, but slept one of the most satisfied heavy sleeps I ever had.
4. pecha-kucha.org Renewal (client : Pecha Kucha)
This year marked the second major iteration of the Pecha Kucha online platform that we have put together in as many years, and this years version is really pushing towards the big vision. Pecha Kucha is a presentation style and an event format, Pecha Kucha Night, that is now held in over 260 cities globally, and still growing.
We have been involved with Pecha Kucha Night for a few years and have known the founders, Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein, since the beginning back in 2002. In 2009 our goal was to set Pecha Kucha for the expansion that it has already experienced and also what is still to come. The complete overhaul included an extensive redesign and an expansion to allow presentations to be viewed online with its own custom player via the presentations portal. It also saw a formalizing of the special event platform where one off Pecha Kucha events can be tied up with larger conferences or events and the integration of Creative Commons licensing on presentation content.
The new platform was soft-launched in late October, in time for Tokyo Design Week.
5. 100 Years of Life (client : Audi)
For Audi’s 100 year anniversary we put together two short documentaries and an exhibition at the Audi Forum Tokyo.
The documentaries featured two Japanese centenarians. Tateoka-san still plays the koto and we were able to arrange a special reunion for her family where she was able to meet her great grand-daughter (just a few months old) for the first time. 103 year old Shouchi-san still travels Japan and the world lecturing and holding workshops for both adults and children about how to live life well and stimulate your mind at both a young age and when you are in your later years.
For the exhibition we collaborated with photographer, Shouichi Ono, who specializes in photographing 100 year olds, to show the life and strength post 100years.
6. Easytone Pink Bomb (client : Reebok)
In one of our last projects of the year we put together a guerrilla campaign in bustling Ginza with the special pink Christmas edition of Reebok’s toning shoe, Easytone.
We assembled 100 women wearing the bright pink Reebok Easytone and coupled that with some promotional trucks and sample girls giving out present gift cards, all driving people to one of four stores in the area that stocked the shoes.
Even on a cold winter day, we made a lot of people take notice and managed to dominate the area with pink.
7. Pump Atmos Billboard (client : Reebok)
This is a fun, impactful billboard that we put together for the Atmos store in Harajuku for their special 20th Anniversary Reebok Pump collaboration shoe and the anniversary in general.
We wanted to make something a little tactile, so placed a great big three dimensional pump in the middle of the board and added shading on the billboard surface to make it look three dimensional.
8. Audi Live (client : Audi)
We created a live blogging platform for Audi press conferences so that a larger audience of press members could be reached.
The platform consists of a live updating page that is updated by someone at the event and a live video stream. The text portion is also directly updated to the Audi Japan Twitter account. Also on the page is a question form so reporters online can ask questions and receive a real time response, extending the press conference past the duration of the press event.
The innovative use of Twitter made news on TV Tokyo’s Morning Satelite, and featured our own Toyo Yokota.
9. Jetset UK, Claska (client : MINI)
To provide an impactful space for MINI at the Jetset UK event at Claska in Meguro, we created a massive 8m x 3.5m window sticker to make sure MINI put their stamp on this UK themed event.
To execute, we worked with a UK based photographer to get some original scenes from Mayfair (the namesake of one of the new release MINI models) in London, then put together a design utilizing the Union Jack flag and some Minis.
The design managed to dominate the main space of the event, providing a strong thematic element for the event and also present MINI well for attendees.
10. E-City (client : Expedia)
E-Cities was what we term a “passive game” that we launched all the way back in January 2009. The concept of a passive game is that the user just needs to sign up to get their page (their city in this case) and then doesn’t need to do anything other than get people to visit their page in order to play the game.
The more people that visit, the higher the population of your city and the more your city evolves and adds features and buildings. We featured Paris, New York and Honolulu as the key cities that you could grow.
We added some special giveaways as incentives to play the game. Visitors to the cities were rewarded with coupons for discounts on Expedia travel and hotels, while city owners had the chance to win the trip to their favorite city.
BONUS. New Office
Not really counting as a project, but quite significant to us for 2009 was the move to our new office in Harajuku. In our Shibuya office we were bursting at the seams, all in one room, some people even working off the meeting table. We spent more than 6 months on the lookout for new space before finally lucking out and discovering the gem of an office we have now in Harajuku.
Other than space and a great environment to work in, we are treated by working each day surrounded by the key people (young and fashionable) that we spend most of our time creating for. The only thing we have to worry about now is that we don’t fill up this office too
Other things
As I mentioned earlier, we had a lot more projects to be proud of in 2009 that couldn’t fit on the list, and for me personally, this past year of work speaks for the hard work that the whole team at USN has been putting in. As we are approaching our 3rd anniversary of the company, its incredibly satisfying to look back at the progress we have made. Especially in the face of trying times financially for the industry in general, we are very happy to have had our most successful year and have finished on an upswing.
2010 has a lot more in store and we are looking forward to an exciting year ahead.
If you want to follow updates about UltraSuperNew, you can follow us on Twitter at @ultrasupernew or just check out our website from time to time at.
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Mike,
Congrats on a great year. We are looking forward to following you and your team’s leading creativity and ballsy approach to communications over the coming year.
One tiny suggestion, “impactful” is not an English word and has probably seeped into your vocabulary from previous years as a common AD vocabulary misnomer. Maybe something like memorable, catchy, remarkable, extraordinary might fit?
You’ve continued to raised the bar on what’s possible. I hope to draw on the same spirit for the inspiration of our team as well.
-Jason
Thanks Jason.
On the use of “impactful” … what can I say, language is not static.
For a nice mini essay on the matter ..
Nice projects, I really enjoy Pump Atmos Billboard.
I follow USN for more than 2 years
Hope to meet you when I will be in Japan and why not work with you
Ocelyn.
I guess “impactful” isn’t as made up as it sounds then. My first search attempt before posting led me to the Urban Dictionary, but goes to show we shouldn’t believe everything we read I guess…
Sorry to distract, but couldn’t resist.
Cheers, looking forward to a great 2010!
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Principle Contractor: BAE Systems Information and Electronics
Date Reported: 7/30/2010
Department: Navy
Contract Details: BAE Systems Information and Electronics, Nashua, N.H., is being awarded a $15,257,258 firm-fixed-price contract for the Low Rate Initial Production I (LRIP I) of 325 APKWS II guidance sections for the Navy, including shipping and storage containers. In addition, this contract provides for the APKWS II guided rocket UH-1Y integration, as well as technical and training manual updates and support equipment and support test equipment. Work will be performed in Nashua, N.H., and is expected to be completed in October 2012. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured pursuant to FAR 6.302-1. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md. is the contracting activity (N00019-10-C-0019).
Total Contract Value: $15,257,258
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A7 5x7 Wedding Invitation on our Pearl, Cotton or Eco-Matte Paper. All Faux Bois invitation & reply card orders come with your choice of White, Bone or Kraft Envelopes.
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Red, White and Boom! July 4th Celebration—fireworks begin at approximately 9:30 p.m., , 1325 E. Calaveras Blvd. Bring a picnic dinner and enjoy an evening of music by JamFunkShus, 7 p.m. Gates open at 6 p.m. Fireworks start at 9:30 p.m. $2 per person over 13 years of age. Details: 408-586-3210.
on certain blocks on Kennedy Drive and South Park Victoria Drive.
SHORELINE AMPHITHEATRE: Fourth of July Fireworks Spectacular with the San Francisco Symphony set to stirring patriotic songs and marches, 8 p.m., Monday, July 4, , 1 Amphitheatre Pkwy., in Mountain View. Details: 650-962-1000.
CALIFORNIA'S GREAT AMERICA: Fireworks on Saturday, July 2, at , 4701 Great America Pkwy., in Santa Clara. The park hosts a fireworks show every Saturday during July and August 2011. Park is open 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Details: 408-986-5866.
SAN JOSE MUNICIPAL STADIUM: San Jose Giants Fireworks Extravaganzas at 7 p.m., Monday, July 4 and Tuesday July 5, 588 East Alma Ave., in San Jose. Tickets are available for purchase online at, over the phone at 408-297-1435 ext. 15 or in person at the Municipal Stadium Box Office, 588 East Alma Ave., at the corner of Senter Road and 10th St., in San Jose.
CUPERTINO: The city of Cupertino has a full day of Independence Day activities planned on Monday, starting with a 7 a.m. pancake breakfast at and culminating in a fireworks display that will be launched from .
Residents can watch from their backyards, or from three recommended viewing locations in the city. Beginning at 6:45 p.m., strolling jazz musicians will play in the parks, with games planned and evening picnics encouraged, at , and . No alcohol, pets or barbecues will be allowed. The fireworks display starts at 9:30 p.m.
For safety reasons, there will be no public access to the campus. In addition, Finch Avenue and Tilson Street will be closed to traffic from 6 p.m. to midnight. Details: 408-777-3110.
GILROY: Fourth of July Community Fireworks Display at 9:30 p.m., Monday, July 4, 750 West 10th St., in Gilroy. The show lasts around 20 minutes. Details: 408-846-0419.
SKYPARK IN SCOTTS VALLEY: Scotts Valley Fourth of July Festival will have fireworks starting at 9:15 p.m., Monday, July 4, 361 Kings Village Road, in Scotts Valley. Celebration opens at 3 p.m. with a parade along Scotts Valley Drive. Food, live music and games follow at Skypark 3-10 p.m. Details: 831-438-3251.
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Righty escapes big jam in three innings of work; Rizzo chips in RBI double
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Cubs up next: Carlos Villanueva will make his second Cactus League start on Saturday against the Giants, and the Cubs are hoping he can finish an inning. Villanueva battled the Dodgers' Dee Gordon in a 16-pitch at-bat to begin his last outing on Monday, and the Cubs right-hander ran out of pitches before he could finish the inning. Steve Clevenger will start at first base as the Cubs try to see if the left-handed batter can fill a spot on the bench. The game will be broadcast on WGN Radio at.
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In 1959, the Smithsons were commissioned to design a new headquarters for The Economist magazine in Piccadilly. Inspired by the narrow lanes and courts of the old City of London, they created an elegantly spacious pedestrian plaza as a trio of finely detailed towers, each built on a different scale, clad in traditional Portland stone. The office interiors were based on their lengthy research into the working practices of The Economist journalists. At the opening the editor Sir Geoffrey Crowther said that the staff had felt 'trepidation' on first meeting the Smithsons but took 'leave of them now with awe and affection'. The success of The Economist project secured a commission for the new British Embassy in Brasilia. Alison and Peter produced their design after conducting yet more rigorous research - this time into how the embassy's staff worked. One senior diplomat described their scheme as an 'embassy of great beauty and certainly the most efficient embassy building ever conceived'.
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How to Install a Minecraft Map?
Don’t worry Miner, its easy to install a minecraft map! Watch this video or carefully go through the instructions below. Mine Hard!
Installing a Minecraft Map on Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7
Step 1 – Download the Map!
Step 2 – Go to your start bar and click the the run button type and type “%appdata%”, then press enter.
Step 3 – Find the “.Minecraft” folder and open it
Step 4 – Open the saves folder and you will find all your other saved minecraft maps
Step 5 – Drag and drop the map from where you downloaded it to this “saves” folder. If it is in a zip, rar or archived file then unzip it.
Step 6 – Play your custom minecraft map!
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Stephanie – I’m not sure where the animosity is coming from here, but SideReel doesn’t rip video content and pass it off under their own player. They, just like the blogs and news sites that embed episodes for coverage, use the official video player for the show. So pre-roll ads, overlays, product integration and other branding are all coming through in the video embeds just as any YouTube or blip.tv video is. And it’s the creators that make the revenue on those video views, not the sites that embed.
And for the record the creator of the show in question, Sons of Brotherhood, reached out to us last week asking to be considered for the Tubefilter picks on SideReel. While they are also on MMTV, they are not exclusive and were looking to distribute their show broadly. They have asked us to keep the show up on SideReel.
Ultimately I think the key getting web series out there and seen by as many people as possible. And that’s the fundamental advantage of having a player like blip or YouTube or Rev3′s that allow for all of those views to drive real revenues directly to the creator no matter where those views happen.
Mark,
You should take time and read my post and the point of using my BRAND to drive traffic to SideReel.com where I don’t get paid nor do the creators. Unlike some creators, I am web savvy and I do know about content farms and site scrapers.
For the sake of the interested web series creators thinking this will help them, let’s dissect this scientifically: From SideReel’s ABOUT Section on their site: SideReel’s library includes more than 24,000 shows and 530,000 episodes. SideReel also creates and distributes original video recaps, recommendations, news, reviews and gossip for popular TV shows.
SideReel.com visitors spend about 36 seconds on each pageview and a total of six minutes on the site during each visit, and visitors to Sidereel.com view 7.6 unique pages each day on average. (Data from Alexa.com) Of course these are averages but there are over 5 display ads on each page that the visitor goes to to get to the “content to watch” which as one reviewer put about the site as “After they upgraded Sidereel I must say looks better but too complicated for my taste. I have to click a lot to get my damn show to watch. And for Christ sake someone remove the horrible generic sites they put as external links, like tehcake… omg… horrid. Some are good, but most are flooded with dead videos and tons of ads. Shouldn’t there be some quality approach system?”
Your reference to series having the official player drive real revenues to the creator? Really, how many YouTube webseries creators are making money on the prerolls, overlays etc.? Yes, they do on Blip.TV and Rev3 but not YouTube… unless they are a partner. How many are there?
Let’s be clear hereI wrote a post about use of MY BRAND to promote another site that is a scraper site. If you disagree with me, I suggest you ask Matt Cutts from Google what a scraper site is. YOU also told the creator that I said “to take the series down from SideReel” – that is not true. That is between SideReel and the creator.
My point is that you guys are LINK-BAITING my Brand to serve ads to unsuspecting people thinking they are going to seeing “Mingle Media TV” content. I’m not getting paid and YOU and SideReel.com are. You are also making money off of the creator and are not partnering with them to share revenue like MMTVN OR Koldcast does.
It would be really great if Tubefilter supported the sites like MINGLE MEDIA TV who promote and support INDIE creators – you guys don’t mention us or publish any of the info on new shows or news we have sent in the past. So I guess going to a site like SideReel where you know there’s a payday for you as they will get tons of traffic for all the content they have on their site is a better option than supporting the sites like ours who help the community with not only hosting their series, but supporting their efforts in learning the business side of making web series?
You can also see what other creators are saying about Sidereel/Tubefilter/Howcast and other “sites that embed content” here at Web Series Network. It’s not just my opinion – others who have been there didn’t see the benefit that those sites are seeing.
Wow. Lots of information to digest here. Thanks for sharing. As we move forward with Causality, we’ll definitely be careful about where we give permission to display our content. And I hope when it’s all done that Mingle Media will consider adding it to your site, since you are one of the most open and honest sites, and actually support creators.
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5% alc./vol.
Available Packages
8 pack 330mL bottles
Tasting Notes
Lazy Mutt Farmhouse Ale is naturally cloudy and pale in color. The off-white foam slowly disappears to reveal a slight citrus aroma given off by the ale yeast. The citrusy palate gives way to a light malty sweetness with a hint of corn and wheat. A very refreshing and drinkable Ale.
Cheese and Food Pairing
Lazy Mutt will pair well with many foods from fresh garden vegetables to hearty meat dishes and fruits. It will pair well with Swiss, Cheddar, Havarti, Provolone or Muenster cheese as well as fresh cheese curds.
Lazy Mutt is available in many US states as well as AB, SK and MB, Canada.
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Police yesterday arrested a third suspect in the murder of lawyer Ahmed Najeeb for allegedly assisting to hide the deceased man’s body.
Police, who have not revealed the name of the suspect, confirmed a 31 year old man had been arrested during their investigations, while claiming further arrests could yet be made concerning the case.
Maafannu Masroora House, the location where Najeeb is believed to have been murdered, is still under observation with a police media official telling local newspaper, Haveeru, that officers are “still trying to find more evidence to support the case.”
Speaking to Minivan News today, Police Spokesperson Sub-Inspector Hassan Haneef confirmed the arrest, though declined to reveal any more information on the suspect’s identity.
“We are now in the investigation process. At the time we do not want to reveal the name of the arrested man as it is a policy of ours to not to reveal the name of a suspect at such an early stage of an investigation,” he said.
Haneef added that officers were presently investigating if any other suspects had involvement in the murder case.
Two suspects already charged over the case, Ahmed Murrath and Fathimath Hana, are currently facing trial.
Case details
Veteran lawyer Najeeb was found dead on July 1. His body was discovered in a dustbin bag in a second floor apartment of Maafanu Masroora house in Male’.
The 65 year-old man’s body was found supposedly gagged, badly beaten and stabbed in the throat.
Police at the time revealed that 29 year old ex-convict Ahmed Murrath had been charged with Najeeb ’s murder and had confessed to killing him, claiming the lawyer attempted to sexually assault his 18 year-old girlfriend Fathimath Hana.
Hana of Rihab house in Shaviyani Goidhoo island, was identified as a second suspect and also faces a charge of murder in relation to the case after she confessed to “helping” her boyfriend kill Najeeb.
During the first hearing of the trial, both suspects testified separately.
Hana noted that Najeeb had arrived to Maafanu Masroora on the night of June 30 at around 10:00pm over, she did not know that the victim had been killed until her boyfriend woke her up and told her about it around 4:00am the following morning. At the time Hana if something was wrong. Hana.
Demand for public execution
During the trial, currently taking place in the Criminal Court, all eight heirs of Najeeb refused to accept blood money and have asked the Judge for qisas (equal retaliation) – the death penalty.
Initially the court summoned the six heirs following the confession of both the suspects implicated in the crime, while the two others were not present for the session.
The court stated that out of the two heirs not present at the hearing, one was living abroad and the court would be making arrangements through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to collect his statement. The other heir was said to work in a resort out of Male’.
In the two seperate hearings held on Thursday (July 5), statements of the two remaining heirs – Shashma Najeeb and Jinaan Ahmed – both refused to accept blood money and asked the Judge for ‘qisas’ similar to the other six family members.
Shashma Najeeb who gave her statement at the Sri Lankan High Commission through a telephone conference, said three times in the court that she wanted the death penalty imposed, asking the presiding judge to implement the death penalty and ensure the killing was carried out in public.
Jinaan Ahmed also followed Shashma Najeeb in demanding the death penalty, refusing to accept blood money.
The Criminal Court Judge has announced that if there are any other heirs remaining which the court has not come to know of, they should inform the court before July 10, and if there remain no further heirs, the trial would be concluded during the next hearing..”
A perceived rise in criminal-related deaths has this week seen growing public debate and media coverage over the issue of implementing capital punishment in the Maldives.
5 Comments on "Police arrest third suspect in Najeeb case, claim more may follow"
LOL on Sun, 8th Jul 2012 5:01 PM
I said it before too there will be more secrets. When you see a murder like this you are not suppose to put the victim on trial in 24 hours ! First you build a case against them, investigate do some detective work and then you go to the court dumb asses !!
chohkaley on Sun, 8th Jul 2012 5:17 PM
We are pleased that a corrupted fellow has left his seat.
Hey Why didn’t Murrath killed Abdulla Gazi – someone has to do something to this junk b”£$%^d – maybe someday this judge also will face a similar fate….
Ahmed on Sun, 8th Jul 2012 5:54 PM
I thought the idea was to sell tickets and kill 2 people inside the centre circle of the fully packed national stadium in front of the cheering Allah Akbar crowd. Why arrest more people. Kill anyone who’s ever committed any crime. Serve blood in coffee shops. Paint the whole country with blood. Celebrate victory.
mohm on Mon, 9th Jul 2012 1:01 AM
Open your eyes, keep it simple : we live in a backward country – as too many Muslims all over the world.
We are kept like that by sheikhs and mullahs who pretend to speak on behalf of God himself : nijab, burqa, music too lustful … but some still refuse to see that reality.
genocidal_maniac on Mon, 9th Jul 2012 8:43 AM
please kill the two victims of your society before you find out the truth about it. just shoot their had off, maybe it’ll fulfill your sick f**k bloodlust disguised as shariah law. just kill them and then maybe you can go have a drink in a resort and get some teen girl to have fun with. and the you will come home pray and be harudhanaa.
do it soon! before the truth ruins it for you.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Department of Agriculture says consumers should not eat fresh cilantro.
The advisory applies only to cilantro shipped to the stores between July 26 and Aug. 6.
Consumers who bought the cilantro bunches are advised to throw them out or return them to the store for a refund.
No illnesses have been reported.
Minnesota is working with California regulators to determine the source of the product.
(© Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)
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Campaign 2008
President-Elect Barack Obama's victory speech
Chicago (AP) — An estimated 125,000 people gathered on an unusually warm November night to greet President-elect Barack Obama at a delirious victory rally at Grant Park.
After an improbable journey that started for Obama 21 months ago and drew a record-shattering $700 million to his campaign account alone, Obama scored an Electoral College landslide that redrew America's political map.
His name etched in history as America's first black president-elect, Barack Obama turned Wednesday from the jubilation of victory to the sobering challenge of leading a nation worried about economic crisis, two unfinished wars and global uncertainty.
(The Associated Press contributed to this report)
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All About Target Field
Twins fans show up early for Opening Dayby Tim Nelson, Minnesota Public Radio,
Sunny Thao, Minnesota Public Radio
Minneapolis — Fans are showing up at Target Field hours ahead of the Minnesota Twins' afternoon home opener to take in the sights, grab a hot dog and snap pictures of the new stadium.
Today's game isn't the first time baseball has been played at Target Field, but it's the first home game for the Twins in the 2010 regular season.
"I'm excited for outdoor baseball, especially this game" against the Boston Red Sox, said Nate Walker, 32, of St. Paul, before heading into the ballpark.
The game against Boston wasn't to start until 3:10 p.m., but downtown Minneapolis was the place to be -- especially as the forecasted rain held off. Street vendors sold hot dogs and State Fair-style food outside, while street musicians entertained fans decked out in red, white and blue.
"It's the most amazing experience," Valerie Crowell, 29, of Cottage Grove, said of attending one of the Twins' exhibition games last weekend.
Crowell, wearing a Twins jersey, said the team's new digs are "awesome."
"I've seen baseball played inside my whole life, and it's great to see it played outside," she said.
Some fans arrived for the game several hours before the gates even opened at Target Field. That included Mike Clark, who was at Target Field as the sun came up Monday morning, well before the gates opened at noon.
Clark lived in the Twin Cities 10 years ago and became a Twins fan before moving to San Jose, Calif.
"Me and my buddy always came to games when I lived here," Clark said. "I moved away in 2003, and as soon as I heard they were opening this park, I knew I'd be here today."
Many fans took pictures at the Hall of Fame area outside the stadium. Others admired the architecture, including the limestone facade that came from Minnesota.
"It's done right," said Nick Capra, 27, of Blaine. "There's a Minnesota flavor to it, from the limestone to the Twins Logo to the State Fair food inside the stadium."
While a Gophers baseball game and Twins exhibition games have been played at Target Field already, the home opener will perhaps be the first true test of everything from transportation and traffic, to food stands inside the stadium.
Twins spokesman Kevin Smith said some things will just take some getting used to at Target Field.
"A lot of our food is kind of made-to-order stuff," Smith said. "Our fans are used to going up and getting stuff that's been precooked and pre-wrapped, and then out they go. But lines are going to be longer in places where we do the made-to-order food."
Metro Transit is also watching to see what happens at the Metrodome light rail station. Staff will be on hand to encourage people to take a bus if trains are too full, spokesman Bob Gibbons said.
"We had a number of fans park there, and then come to the station to ride light rail to Target Field, and those trains were awfully full," Gibbons said. "Our intent on putting staff there is to encourage fans to step right across the street on 4th Street and consider using a route 3, 16 or 50 bus that comes along there."
Right-handed starter Carl Pavano will throw the first regular season pitch at Target Field, and left-hander Jon Lester will take the mound for the Red Sox.
The Twins' series with Boston runs through Thursday. The Twins will then host the Kansas City Royals this weekend and the Cleveland Indians next week.
Tim Nelson• Reporter
Tim Nelson is a general assignment reporter for MPR News.
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Online balloting to decide '09 All-Stars
Fewer than two days remain to vote for starting lineups
We, the people, are deciding who goes to the 80th All-Star Game July 14 in St. Louis.
We are ready for the mad rush.
We are entering that Validation Key over and over, submitting our 25 allotted votes in the 2009 All-Star Game Sprint Online Ballot at MLB.com.
We punched those Walt Disney Pictures G-Force All-Star Game paper ballots and left those little chads all over ballparks.
We know there are fewer than two days remaining to decide starters. Our deadline as empowered fans is 11:59 p.m. ET on Thursday, and we know that only because we have been staring at this javascript voting app since late April, when those first "VOTE NOW" ads starting appearing everywhere.
We see the excitement building to what could very well be one -- or two, or three -- of the most exciting finishes ever seen in All-Star balloting. Among the 16 starting positions to be awarded, some appear headed toward unpredictable at-the-wire decisions.
We are still trying to decide between Ian Kinsler of the Rangers and Dustin Pedroia of the Red Sox at second base, and at this rate, we won't be surprised -- with Kinsler holding an ultra-slim lead of fewer than 7,000 votes -- if it winds up as the closest finish in All-Star Game voting history.
Both have helped their teams into first place for much of this season. We click the "Compare Stats" link on the ballot, and we see Kinsler on top of the league at this position for homers and steals. We see the reigning AL MVP as elite right now. But we also see this breakout season for Aaron Hill of the Blue Jays and another big year for last year's starter, Robinson Cano of the Yankees.
We are still trying to decide between American League first base rivals Mark Teixeira of the Yankees and Kevin Youkilis of the Red Sox, who have exchanged the lead five times, with Youkilis moving 40,047 votes ahead of Teixeira this week. What those two players do in these final days undoubtedly will make a difference.
We are still trying to decide between Hanley Ramirez and Jimmy Rollins. Florida's superstar came from behind in the latest voting update, going from 87,000 behind the Phillies' shortstop to a 254,257-vote lead.
We still aren't sure about Yadier Molina of the Cardinals or Brian McCann of the Braves. In fact, we aren't completely sure which Molina brother to go with. Lots of people are supporting Bengie Molina of the Giants, but the Cardinals' backstop had been holding the edge for a hometown start.
We hold the power in these final days to change both starting outfields. The latest update had Jason Bay of the Red Sox, Ichiro Suzuki of the Mariners and Josh Hamilton of the Rangers in the AL outfield, but Torii Hunter of the Angels and Carl Crawford of the Rays were well within reach of Hamilton, who has missed the past month due to injury and has seen his lead for the third and final spot narrow to about 145,000.
Raul Ibanez of the Phillies, Braun and Carlos Beltran of the Mets are the latest leaders in the NL outfield, but the voting volume is so enormous that there is an easy chance for upward movement by Alfonso Soriano of the Cubs and Shane Victorino of the Phillies, both of whom are within striking range.
We will be making our own final judgments, and then once again the majority of people will say: "Fans got it right."
We already had recorded 163 million votes online entering this final week of balloting, representing a 15-percent increase over the comparable 2008 vote total. With millions of votes coming over these last days, we will decide which Major Leaguers become the starting position players.
"With fans casting votes on MLB.com at a record pace, we look forward to a historic and exciting conclusion to this year's All-Star balloting for the elected starters," said Dinn Mann, executive vice president, content, MLB.com. "These close races have been fascinating to watch each week and leave us eagerly anticipating the second leg of online balloting when the final roster spot for each All-Star team will be determined exclusively on MLB.com."
We vote because we want fans to get it right. We vote because our favorite players are the best. We vote because we don't like those other guys. We vote because it is fun. We vote because every year we bump someone into a deserved spot right at the end, as we did with Ryan Braun at the end of last year's All-Star balloting, as we did with Albert Pujols and Hideki Matsui years ago. We vote because it is our chance to demolish baseball records.
We are the All-Star Game voters.
We know it's important, and we aren't through yet.
We will vote until we can't vote anymore, and then we will watch as rosters for each league will be unveiled July 5 on the 2009 MLB All-Star Game Selection Show, televised nationally on TBS. The AL and NL teams each will have eight fan-elected starters. Twenty-three reserves for both squads will be determined through a combination of "Player Ballot" choices and selections made by the two All-Star team managers -- Joe Maddon of the Rays and Charlie Manuel of the Phillies -- in conjunction with MLB.
We will see not only who we collectively settled on as the starters, but also just what kind of voting power we reflected again. It is like no other sports digital interactivity. 2008 online balloting, 214.7 million votes from 16.5 million ballots were cast at MLB.com and the club sites, despite having seven fewer days in the voting cycle than in 2007. These record figures each represented increases of nearly 40 percent over the previous marks for total votes and ballots cast.
We know it's not over at that point, either. We get to keep voting after a brief cooldown, because immediately after the announcement of the rosters, phone, exclusive to Sprint subscribers. Both winners will be announced after the voting has concluded on Thursday, July 9.
We don't even stop voting there. During the game itself, we participate in the official voting for the All-Star Game's Ted Williams Most Valuable Player Award presented by Chevrolet via the 2009 All-Star Game Sprint MVP Vote on MLB.com. So we not only decide the starters and the final roster spots, but we help decide who is the MVP that night at Busch Stadium.
We heard MLB president and chief operating officer Bob DuPuy say: "The Major League Baseball All-Star Game Balloting program is one of the great traditions in sports and serves as a powerful way to engage baseball fans around the world. Major League Baseball is delighted that fans once again will determine the Midsummer Classic's starting lineups as we celebrate the 80th All-Star Game in one of America's truly special baseball cities."
We believe it. We are living it. We are typing Validation Key after Validation Key. We will pour on the votes in this final week, just as we have done before, and we probably will make a dramatic difference of some kind in the final 24 hours. We have done it before. We are doing it as you are reading this, and now it is time for you to click the ballot as well.
We, the people, are deciding who goes to the All-Star Game.
Mark Newman is enterprise editor of MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.
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After hanging this in my daughter's room, I got a picture of her basking happily in the warm green light.
I even got a quick picture of her happy view. She loves it & so do I. The light and shadows cast on the walls are very soothing and serene. Hope you enjoy our happy little butterfly lamp.
The way the lamp lit up kind of reminded me of the jellyfish I saw in Monterrey.
Link Parties where you'll find me.
Here's the Tea Rose Home feature link!
-Mandy
40 comments:
Wow! I saw your butterfly mobile before .. the lamp is even cuter! Very original, love it!
Omg I love it! Definitely making for my new grandaughter!
this is awesome!! I am planning a post this week on crafty moms, would you mind if I linked it and stole a photo?
Thanks for your sweet comments everyone!
Stephanie, I am flattered & would love for you to link it.
I am very excited about the way it turned out. I'll have to post pictures of my daughter's nursery soon.
This is beautiful! What a lucky little girl!
I love these lamps - so sweet!
What an adorable lamp! I love all the colors.
Feel free to stop by my blog and check out what I'm working on!
Nice project. I would love it if you would link this up in Modern Craftswoman Monday. Very well done. Rory
That is just awesome! I have to give that a try! Thanks for the inspiration! :)
Gorgeous! I would love a tutorial on how you put the hoop and lamp together.
This is awesome!!
It totally looks like a jellyfish.
I love it!!!!
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This is beautiful!! Great job!
All I can say is "FABULOUS"! The jellyfish look is so cool!! Thanks for linking to Baby Week at Oopsey Daisy!
Super, duper cool. I love!! I'm visiting from All Things Related:)
Very cute
That is REALLY cute! Love the colors too. Very creative!
Lisa
wowsa. it's nothing short of gorgeous.
Thanks for linking and helping to make this the most successful Modern Craftswoman Monday so far! Rory
How sweet! I like how you added the mobile to the light! Thanks for joining us for Anything Related!
~Bridgette
So beautiful! We're throwing a butterfly b'day for my 2yo this weekend and I'm going to try to recreate the butterfly effect of your lamp only larger and hanging from the tree that shadows our patio. I hope it looks as pretty as your lamp!
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so pretty! i love the colorful, lighted design twist (it's a zillion times more fun than the PBK mobile!) thanks for sharing :)
AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME project! I seriously LOVE it!!! If only I had a girl to make something like this for! :)
So adorable and unique. I love this.
This is beyond too cool! I love that its not a traditional mobile!!
~Morgan
Meet Virginia!
Meet Virginia!!
Meet Virginia!!!
Love that!! Awesome!
Amazing! What a great idea.
Thanks for linking up with Sugar & Spice.
Oh this is too beautiful! I LOVE it!
I love it with the green paper lantern! Thanks for sharing ... I've posted a link.
This is so beautiful and unique! I Thank you for sharing this at my link party!
Hi I dropped by from Shabby Chic's link party. Beautiful lamp and mobile! I bet your little one is fascinated!
Very very sweet light! I love all those fluttering little butterflies. :)
I should say this ought to be in a Etsy! This is so wonderfully unique. I've never seen such a pretty mobile before. :)
Thanks for sharing it on SNS!
FJ Donna
Wow! That is amazing! Love it!
Thanks for sharing!
~Liz
I love the light/mobile, and thanks for stopping by to answer your thrift questions
How do you decide when to buy? If I am buying for myself, it's it's something that I need or have been searching for. For others, it's at their request
What do you do with it once you have it? Most times than not they are sold
How do you keep things from piling up around your house? It's hard not to, but most times once I have revamped, things I find are sold
Thanks for stopping by. You can see my guest post on thrift tips here
I love this - I'm definitely going to have a go at making one! I made confetti for my wedding with one of those butterfly stamps!
OMG this is SO amazing! That $80 Pottery Barn mobile thingie has got nothing on you!
Corinna
Love it!!!
xoxo,
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Wow! This is gorgeous. I want one in my room.
That is really beautiful! And your daughter is so precious!
Hi its really very nice blog i enjoyed a lot to visit..Mobile prices
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Losing is fun.. what about playing?
One of my many personal failings is that I’ve never been able to figure out how to play Dwarf Fortress. Remember Cypher staring into The Matrix? Playing Dwarf Fortress is kind of like that, except instead of seeing blonde, brunette, redhead you see dwarf, goblin, carnivorous trout. But every once in a while something comes along that makes me think I should try again, like this great article in The New York Times Magazine: The Brilliance of Dwarf Fortress.
The most amazing part is the dedication of Tarn Adams, the developer. He’s got a doctorate in Math from Stanford, but plans to spend the rest of his life working on his game, which is appreciated by few, but is possibly the most intricate game ever created. He works on the game every day, and pays his basic expenses with the few donations he receives. His living conditions would be considered a nightmare by many, but for some is nirvana: he works from 3PM to 6AM every day, in a room with boarded up windows, living on barely more than just soda, coding and brainstorming game features with his brother, Zach.
Somebody on reddit had this to say about the complexity of DF. In most games, you have hit points. Each time you are hit by a bad guy, your hit point total goes down, and when it reaches zero, you die. Dwarf Fortress is different:
In Dwarf fortress, you have individually modeled bones, internal organs, fingers, toes, facial features, and a circulatory system. And that’s just what we can see; I suspect much more. If bitten by something with paralytic venom, the diaphragm (eventually) stops filling the lungs and the dwarf dies minutes later after blood oxygen levels fall too far.
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Mr. Butler, a native of Gwinnett County, had lived in Bacon County, Jeff Davis County and Douglas, Coffee County area for many years.
He was the son of the late James Thomas Butler and the late Sarah Frances Thurman Butler and husband of the late Lola Malloy Butler Butler.
He was a retired rancher. Mr. Butler was of the Baptist faith.
Survivors include two daughter, Rachael Evelyn Byrd of Macon and Anna Ruth Dorn of North Augusta; four sons, Ronnie Wayne Butler Sr. of North Augusta, Roy Jack Butler of Dearing, Larry Butler of Hazlehurst, and Kennon Frederick Butler of Baxley; 18 grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren and five great-great grandchildren; several nieces, nephews and other relatives.
Funeral services were held Thursday morning, March 18, 2004, at 10 a.m., at the chapel of Ricketson Funeral Home with Rev. Matt Rutledge officiating. Interment was in the Douglas City Cemetery.
Ricketson Funeral Home of Douglas was in charge of arrangements.
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Scientific Linux affectionately calls Red Hat "The Upstream Vendor" or TUV for short.
This is the documentation from TUV for Enterprise 6.
Cluster Administration
Cluster Suite Overview
Deployment Guide
Developer Guide
DM Multipath
Global File System 2
Installation Guide
Logical Volume Manager Administration
Managing Confined Services
Managing Single Sign-On and Smart.Cards
Migration Planning Guide
Power Management Guide
Release Notes 6.0
Release Notes 6.1
Release Notes 6.2
Release Notes 6.3
Resource Management Guide
Security-Enhanced Linux
Security Guide
Storage Administration Guide
System Tap Beginners Guide
System Tap Tapset Refernce
Technical Notes - 6.0
Technical Notes - 6.1
Technical Notes - 6.2
Technical Notes - 6.3
Virtualization
Virtual Server Administration
Note: The above documentation is provided {and copyrighted} by Red Hat®, Inc. The documentation is released via the Open Publication License (V1.0 or later).
Scientific Linux redistributes these original works (in their unmodified form) as a reference for Scientific Linux 6, because Scientific Linux 6 is built from publicly available, open source SRPMS.
Scientific Linux is not affiliated with, sponsored by, supported by, or in any way associated with Red Hat®, Inc..
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By Greg Chartrand (10) <Greg_Chartrand@qmail.ssc.gov>
National Science Foundation Develops a National Super Highway Greg Chartrand 3/11/93
"I just returned from a network meeting in San Diego today and thought you would be interested in my interpretation of what NSF proposes for the National Education and Research Network (NREN). Rather than comment specifically, I decided it would be interesting to write a parody which relates the NREN to the construction of a national super highway. Doing so removes the highly technical aspects of the overall planned functions the NREN. Please excuse this style, but I think its the only way to explain my understanding of their plan in a way that does not immediately get very technical. It may be flawed, but the information is based upon Hans-Werner Braun's presentation.... as I understood it."
The National Science Foundation is in the process of developing plans to build a national super highway that will advance transportation technology in our country. The super highway proposed will replace the existing interstate highway system and allow speeds of at least 240 MPH. the following interview with NSF developers explores their current plans.
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ME: I understand you are building a new Super national highway(11) to serve the purposes of advancing ground transportation throughout our county.
NSF: Yes we are, as a part of an earlier initiative sponsored by the then Senator Gore. We are very excited about the technology that will allow transportation speeds of 240 MPH(12) across the country. ME: That sounds exciting, how will it be built?
NSF: Well, we will have this super highway designed to allow the high speed travel(13) and it will have six entrance/exit ramps.(14) ME: Ahh.... that doesn't sound like very many ramps, where will they be located?
NSF: Well, several years ago we funded the establishment of six gourmet restaurants(15) scattered across the country, we are going to fund the building of the super highway and access ramps at the restaurant locations. We are however allowing the ramp contractor(16) to build as many ramps as he wishes, at his own expense.
ME: I assume then the contractor for the highway(17) builds ramps where ever it makes sense to optimize access.
NSF: Well, not exactly. We are separating the contracts for the ramps and the highway so the bidders can be very competitive.
ME: I see. How to you plan to connect the rest of the interstate highway system(18) to your super national highway?
NSF: Well actually, its not part of our plan. We are having the highway and access ramps built for us, its up to the states or other government agencies to provide the highways to the access ramps. We will however fund a few temporary roads(19) to connect parts of the existing interstate highway system, but don't intend to make them permanent. Did I forget to mention that we will be shutting down the existing interstate highway system?(20)
ME: You mean I will no longer be able to drive across the existing interstate highway system?
NSF: Yes, it will be destroyed.
ME: OK, lets see If I understand. I have a state highway system for example, and I put in a connecting highway to your super highway, and I can now travel on it, right?
NSF: Well, no you can't. The super highway will only be used for vehicles that can run 240 MPH(21) and we must approve every vehicle, destination, and trip the vehicle takes.(22) We don't want our super highway clogged with vehicles which can only travel 70 MPH!(23)
ME: I'm confused. You mean you want my state for example, to build an access road to a super highway it can't generally use?
NSF: Well, yes and no. You see we also want to encourage development of toll roads in our country.(24) Our six high speed access ramps are wide enough to allow parallel toll roads to be accessed as well as our super highway. Private road builders will be able to put in toll roads between our access ramps, for a fee.
ME: So there will no longer be a "free" interstate highway system?
NSF: Right!
ME: Lets see if I got this straight. You build a national super highway that has six access ramps located where you once established gourmet restaurants and you destroy the interstate highway system. There are no plans to replicate the functionality of the interstate highway systems, but you will allow private toll road builders to use your wide access ramps and develop parallel toll roads to your super highway. My state or the government has to build the roads that lead to the super highway, but once there, cannot travel on it unless the specific vehicle can run at 240 MPH and has specific permission from you to travel on it.
NSF: You've got it!
ME: Well then you must have a very interesting reason to put this highway and the access ramps at these restaurant locations.
NSF: Well, you see, the gourmet food business isn't what it used to be. Fast food has really taken over in our country, we really need to preserve the gourmet food business.(25) High quality restaurants should be located right off of classy high speed highways. We really would like to encourage restaurant patrons to use the super highway so they can have breakfast in San Diego and dinner in Champaign Illinois. We will be looking for patrons who can afford to eat at multiple restaurants and we will let them ride the highway for free! Of course they must have a vehicle that can go 240 MPH.(26)
ME: I'm even more confused. How will I get across the country?
NSF: Well, if your state puts in an access road to one of our access ramps you take it, and then exit-off on to one of the toll roads that will be built parallel to our super highway.
ME: How fast will I be able to go?(27)
NSF: What ever the speed limit is on the toll road.
ME: What will it cost me to ride on it?
NSF: What ever the toll is. You see, we expect that several toll roads will be developed. Competition! It should keep the price down.
ME: When the super highway is empty, how will it be used?
NSF: Well, we are telling the gourmet restaurants that they should work together even though they will be competing with each other for customers.(28) You know, they could develop plans to send trash to each other so they can demonstrate how fast the transportation is on the super highway, it would be in their best interest.(29)
ME: Aren't there plans for development of high speed toll roads already in progress by several toll road builders? What makes you think they will put their roads in-between your access ramps?(30)
NSF: F.O.D.
ME: What?
NSF: Field Of Dreams. If we build it they will come.
ME: So again, tell me who pays for what?
NSF: The government funds the super highway and six access ramps. The toll road providers build their own roads and pays an access fee for the ramps. The states and other government agencies pay for any roads necessary to get to the access ramps. When you get on a toll road and pay what ever the price is.
ME: And the only one's allowed to ride on the super highway are those persons who have special vehicles that can go 240 MPH with your specific permission, or those who can afford to frequent the gourmet restaurants and travel at 240 MPH. Everyone else takes the toll roads.
NSF: Right, but don't forget the trash runs between restaurants!
ME: Oh, how silly of me! Hmmmm. I wonder if this is really what Senator Gore had in mind?
"If we do not succeed, then we face the risk of failure." --- Vice President Dan Quayle "What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is." --- Vice President Dan Quayle (winning friends while speaking to the United Negro College Fund)
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my profile, i've been posting here for 3 years (mostly lurking). So I can't remember all the high lights. :P
In terms of recent threads I've enjoyed, I really liked Neodoxy's thread about Stimulus and the Broken Window Fallacy. Even though the thread was perpetually derailed, I think a lot of good points were raised. The discussion wound up being timely too, considering Hurricane Sandy happened not long afterward.
I also want to reminisce about a lot of good posters that I don't see post any more. Esuric, Lagrange Multiplier, Stranger, Strange Loop, hayekianxyz, laminustacitus, others. Hopefully they'll find their way over to the new forums.
Either way, this forum has been a lot of fun. I actually learned a lot from many of the people here. I will be sad to see it go. C'est la vie.
Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine - Elvis Presley
Re: "OMG anyone remember "poster of the month"? I don't remember why that died"
Because it was essentially a circle jerk motion, given to the 'favourites'.. mostly of a certain forum faction? (Saying that as a recipient).
Re: "the KnightofBAWAA if anyone remembers him."
Legend. Great mod before he was ousted/banned when Danny took over and wanted to change the forum dynamic. Would not relent if you were on the wrong side of the argument and continued to try get by the laws of logic.
Reminiscing Thread...
When posts were longer, more considered and less 'chatty'.
When it seemed like everyone had something considerable to add.
When the conversation/discussion was something new... not something that you could simply refer to a past discussion thread (or 100) about.
When these guys were all around; KnightofBawaa, Jon Irenicus, NirgrahamUK, Inquisitor.. the verifiable A-team.
Also of note: LibertyStudent, Andrew Cain, Krazy Kaju, E. R. Olovetto, Wilderness, Daniel Muffinburg, Graham Wright, Sage, filc and DD5.
As for AJ, Danny and the rest of the 'consequentialist' crowd... my arguments are far more advanced because of those discussions/criticisms leveled at Rothbard, Hoppe etc. Cheers.
As for thread discussions of amusement/worth, I'll offer two; when mr1001nights came to the forums is one, along with the occasional revleft appearance... and the temp Mises forum excursion over to revleft hahah.
I've always sympathized with a lot of Clayton's conspiracy theories and to be honest, I've always believed in a lot of them.
My favorite time on the forums was when I helped do a little revisionist history re: the triangle shirtwaist fire.
Farewell Mises Forum and fellow posters -I shall truly miss the "God" debates.
David Friedman!
^ True! It is very cool that was he was willing to pop in every so often to discuss his work (though it sucks some people were pretty rude to him).
I definately hope he finds his way to the new forum.
One of my fondest memories is of Liberty Student offering a Mises Store gift voucher to the first two posters who wrote a decent critique of a post by Clayton. I won one, and no one else wrote a critique, so Clayton got the other one!
My favorite time on the forum was back when the deontologists and consequentialists were going at it. I was learning so much back then just from lurking and chipping in now and again.
Special thanks to: Liberty Student, ER Olovetto, Andrew Cain, Conza, AJ, nirgrahamUK, Danny Sanchez, Clayton, I. Ryan, Esuric, filc, Sieben, John James, Nielsio, Adam Knott, Autolykos.
Government Explained 2: The Special Piece of Paper
Law without Government
Yeah, I bought van Creveld's The Rise and Decline of the State with that gift! That was awesome...
Clayton -
I'll just say that before I began actively posting here, I was a lurker.. I'll take the time now, since it's a golden opportunity, to thank him for his contributions to this forum, whether he still reads the posts here or not. Thanks dude. :).
Does anyone remember Democracy for Breakfast?
I don't remember too much about him, but the basic narrative that I remember was that he came here around the same time I did and he went down the whole beginner's track to learning about AE and Libertarianism and he mostly seemed to agree with the views generally held around here even though he was a n00b.
Then I remember him changing his username to Novus Zarathustra and a lot of his material just got odd and rather intelligent. I always thought that was weird, but I might not be recounting the series of events quite properly.
I also enjoyed Sieben's/Snowflake's contributions, even if he was recently banned. He showed up about the time that I did as well.
I don't remember that Neodoxy, but I do remember you recently claiming that you started here with a noob account and then later opened your Neodoxy account becuase you didn't like some of the things your noob account had posted. This is all adding up now.
Marko:Funny you should say that because LStudent went from being a self-proclaimed Rockwellian (which I thought was very clever) to something far more squishy and ill-defined. IIRC by the end he wasn't even a natural rights guy anymore. So clearly there were some principles he moved away from.
This may or may not be true; but from what I can remember, he was pretty strong on his principles and I don't remember seeing any contradiction.
BTW - Prime, you have the best avatar on the forum. :)
@Prime
What is your avatar BTW?
I failed to make Graham's list. Damn.
Neodoxy - Prime's avatar is Bill Murray in Kingpin.
Lol Wheylous. I appreciate your contributions too. Sadly all lists must come to an end! To me you are (or were) like Robin to JJ's Batman (thanks Jargon!). I sense your best posts are still to come - and they won't be on this forum.
By the way, I nominate that What do you look like? thread as the funniest on the forum (shame some of the pics have disappeared though). Anyone got any other nominations?
I agree that that was probably the funniest, but this one was pretty good to. I also like the pokemon thread I recently resurrected.
Anyone remember Vichy Army ?
Anyone remember Vichy Army ?
AKA Bitchy Army.
Also of note: LibertyStudent, Andrew Cain, Krazy Kaju, E. R. Olovetto, Wilderness, Daniel Muffinburg, Graham Wright, Sage, filc and DD5.
Too bad Olovetto was banned when Sanchez started modding more.
Neodoxy:
I also like the pokemon thread I recently resurrected.
I also like the pokemon thread I recently resurrected.
It's praxeologically true.
The Anarch is to the Anarchist what the Monarch is to the Monarchist.
-Ernst Jünger
Re: "Too bad Olovetto was banned when Sanchez started modding more."
So THAT's where he went?!
Should have known. Pathetic.
It's the era when the "Member Issues" group was created. I think Sanchez might have still been posting as Lilburne then. I know one of his bans had to do with him posting a gif file of the Star of David turning into a Swastika. I think everyone else got the irony in that except Sanchez.
Who the heck is "G8R HED"?
He posts occasionally.
I have another one to add: I fondly remember the "Reminiscing thread" - anyone else remember it? Haha, those were the good old days.
I remember when I first encountered Neodoxy on here and he scared the crap out of me by posting a link for me and then saying:
"and remember. I did this just. For. You."
Also, there was that whole "a" and "z" thing with the Peace and Freedom Party. That was quite a hoot.
Why is the forum closing down?
Why is the forum closing down?
The answer, my friend,
Is blowing in the wind.
The answer is blowing in the wind.
My humble blog
It's easy to refute an argument if you first misrepresent it. William Keizer
I don't get on here much anymore, very rarely, but I do remember Liberty Student. Once I asked him if the world was indeed round, and he said "No." Very little grey with that guy, and although he was neurotic, I don't know many on this forum that haven't appeared to be at one time or another lol.
Liberty Student was entertaining, and I even followed his blog for about a day once upon a time. BTW What is the new forum? I might join it and become more engaged? When does it go
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Installing CrashPlan headless on OpenIndiana using Mac for GUI
I decided that I wasn’t quite ready for the work it was going to take to convert from OpenIndiana to FreeBSD 9.0 so I decided to quickly tackle a CrashPlan Headless install and also set up my Mac to access as the headless server when needed.
OpenIndiana: Installation and Setup
I pretty much followed the installation directions on the Crashplan’s website with a couple tiny modifications.
Download the application from here.
Move the downloaded file to /var/spool/pkg
pfexec mv CrashPlan_2010-03-08_Solaris.tar.gz /var/spool/pkg/
Unpack the archive
pfexec tar -xzvf CrashPlan_2010-03-08_Solaris.tar.gz
Install the package
pfexec /usr/sbin/pkgadd
At this point I diverged a little and made a change to a CrashPlan configuration file: (this tells the service to accept connections on any IP that my server will respond on)
/opt/sfw/crashplan/conf/my.service.xml
I changed the line
serviceHost 127.0.0.1
to
serviceHost 0.0.0.0
then fire up the service
pfexec /opt/sfw/crashplan/bin/CrashPlanEngine start
Mac: GUI Setup
You now need to setup the gui to point to your remote engine. Make sure you’ve installed CrashPlan on your Mac. After you’ve got it installed, open
/Applications/CrashPlan.app/Contents/Resources/Java/conf/ui.properties
and change the line that reads
#serviceHost=127.0.0.1
to
serviceHost={IP_OF_ENGINE}
If all goes well, you should now be able to fire up CrashPlan on your Mac, connect to your headless box, and setup your backups.
Todo
- Create a config for my local box and a config for my headless box
- Write a script that will switch configs depending on which system I want to manage
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I am only about 6 months away from my wedding, so if I ever want to share some of the details with you, I better get started! Today I thought I would share some vintage inspired invitations with you. I found these when looking on line for my wedding invitations. The first few are from Fender Skirts, and are actually for a bridal shower, but they are so sweet that I had to show you!
I saw this in a bridal mag. They made the save the dates, invites, favors etc all with this sweet silhouette logo.
This next set is from Zazzles. I could only snag a thumbnail, so I had to blow it up and the quality is horrible- so sorry! They have a tight hold on their graphics! So check out their website to see them in their full glory!
This set was my favorite, and perfectly fit my wedding colors, so we ordered them! We got the custom Save The Date card, Invitation, RSVP Card, and Thank You Notes. Each has a different photo on them from our engagement set (double sided color printing was included, so we used it). It cost a small fortune (darn my expensive tastes), but we love them! We decided it was worth the splurge to get the perfect design. The invitations are your guests first impression of you wedding after all!
We wish we could send you all invitations, but that wouldn't be possible, so at least I can show them to you here!
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My children’s picture book, 10 Yellow Bananas is listed in the TOP PICKS, Highly Recommended Section (4 /5 stars) at Biblio Reads 0-12 Children’s Book Review.
Direct link:
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Book reviewed by Lisa Barker, BiblioReads.com
I am very happy with this review, though when I first read it I was a little disappointed about the rhyming comment. I worked so hard getting that meticulously right with Dr Virginia Lowe
But I came to the conclusion that you can’t please everyone. It is overall, a very good review. And I only just realised that it was in the Highly Recommended section. So there you go!
If you wish to read other reviews of my children’s books, please visit my website:
Just click on the Book Reviews tab on the left side panel.
Hope you are all having an inspirational week.
Helen
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Opposition Told to Get its Act Together
Says AFP: The NDP offered some cosmetic changes to the country's nominal democracy, but the opposition must unite and formulate propositions of its own if broader change is to occur. The report entitled "Reforming Egypt: In Search of a Strategy", by the International Crisis Group think-tank said the Egyptian opposition is "congenitally weak". It acknowledged the electrifying effect that the new Kefaya (Enough) movement had on political debate in recent months but it also stressed that Kefaya failed to draw the masses and remained locked in a negative agenda, missing the turn from opposition to proposition. Read it all.
Previous post today: Reforming Egypt. Technorati search of previous posts: Kefaya, Kifaya, Opposition, Election
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April 4, 2012
Jake Rowe
UGASports.com
As a prospect that is being recruiting by almost every school in the country, Eagle's Landing defensive lineman Isaac Rochell has seen it all.
In fact, he has seen most schools more than once.
Rochell has taken visits to Tennessee, Clemson, Georgia Tech, Notre Dame, and Florida State, but one program he has seen many times is the home state Georgia Bulldogs.
The Rivals100 defender was in Athens this past weekend for UGA's first spring scrimmage, but this trip was a tad different than the rest.
"It was pretty much a day as a player," said Rochell. "I got to do exactly what the players do. I got to go to meetings, and eat the same meals that the players eat. It was a really good visit."
While the four star prospect did get a chance to learn what it was like to be a Georgia player in his visit to the Classic City, not much else was different on this trip.
"I've been there so many times, things were pretty much like they always were," said Rochell. "I like Georgia, and I've said before that I can really see myself there. I know a lot of people there, and I'm from here so I see them all the time."
While Rochell could end up at a variety of different positions at the next level including offensive tackle, defensive end, or defensive tackle, he knows exactly where Georgia plans on putting his talents to use in their 3-4 defense.
"I know they want me at defensive end and some at outside linebacker," said Rochell. "They have told me that already. They want me up front rushing the passer and stuff like that."
Although Rochell is considering schools all over the country at this time, he did acknowledge that distance could play a factor his decision of where to play at the next level.
"I mean, when it comes to distance and it being a factor, I would have to say yes and no," he said. "I'm not worried about getting to far from home or anything, but at the same time, it would be nice to play close to home too. So I'm not sure how big of an impact it will play, but it does matter."
After visiting the Bulldogs over the weekend, Rochell visited Notre Dame on Monday, and has named the Irish his clear leader at this point, and says that he is unsure of when he could make a decision. ...More... To continue reading this article you must be a member. Sign Up Now for a FREE Trial
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The Vember Mill is a modern fable about a boy whose rural community is on the brink of economic collapse. When the boy discovers a family of river sprites in the hills near his home, he learns they too are near ruin.
(your hook starts here)
Preston Vatticus hasn't adjusted to the solitude of his stepfather's home in the farmlands of Northern Utah. His only friend is Corvery, a talkative young raven. After hearing a painful scream in the hills, Preston and Corvery meet the Trenchers--mythical folks who dig the river beds and shape the river banks. Lately the Trenchers have grown frightened of the creek water. Animals that drink from it have been changing into monstrous beasts, and an old miller is bent on keeping this a secret.
Meanwhile, the creek water flows downhill to the irrigation ditches of the Cache Valley, where desperate farmers have been selling their land to developers, and the rural culture is growing thin. Preston's stepfather has slipped into hopelessness, and Preston's mother isn't far behind. Preston now faces a dilemma. Righting the wrongs of the Vember Mill may require him to push his stepfather over the breaking-point. But ignoring the plight of the Trenchers could bring an even worse fate.
This isn't a hook it's a description of the plot, sort of. It's missing the antagonist and it's not specific enough to hook me. And "modern fable" is one of those phrases that makes me say no no no. I really hate anything smacking of "fable" becuase it implies stock characters and no plot, but that's just me.
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I like the idea quite a bit, but the writing as shown here doesn't support it. Too many ideas, not enough substance. Let readers and reviewers bloviate about the book's Main Ideas and Overriding Themes. As a writer, you need to concentrate on the concrete. Who-What-When-Where-Why and How. It's not your job to tell us What It All Means.
Focus on the people and their lives and conflicts, and let the world build itself out of that. The rest will happen naturally.
I remember reading the beginning of this story (on Evil Editor's blog, I think), and I loved it with a big-time love. It was so moody and evocative. Please hang in there, author! I want to be able to read this novel some day.
My favorite part of the hook is: "Lately the Trenchers have grown frightened of the creek water. Animals that drink from it have been changing into monstrous beasts, and an old miller is bent on keeping this a secret." Being frightened of the water... I find that eerie and disturbing. In a good way, of course. :)
Don't the animals and people drink from the same water?
If it's the water causing the animals to turn into monsters, what is it doing to the people?
I love animals, to be sure, but in this case, I'd be worried first about the people, particularly if I lived there.
Well, maybe the hook needs some work, but at least the story is distinctive enough that I remembered reading the query and first page on Rachel Vater's blog three months ago. So kudos for that.
I actually like this somewhat. At least it's not the typical find-the-killer-because-I'm-dating-satan story.
You had me interested right up until "may require him to push his stepfather over the breaking-point." I don't know what that is, but I probably need to know before I read the book. It's part of knowing what the story is about.
good luck.
Remind me not to go swimming in Bear Lake ever again.
This story caught my attention, but the hook isn't the best it could be.
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2011-12: NEWMAC first team All-Conference (100 Fly) … NEWMAC second team All-Conference (200 IM) … concentrated mainly on the butterfly events … finished either second or third on all five of his 100 fly regular season swims … swam a 50.57 at the MIT Invitational (12/2) … twice claimed second in the 200 fly during the regular season … second in the 200 IM at the NEWMAC Championships with a career best 1:53.58, an NCAA B cut time … took home the NEWMAC title in the 100 fly in 50.24, another B cut time … fourth in the 200 fly.
Out of the Pool at MIT: Majoring in nuclear science and engineering … minor in energy … internship with the Institute for High Energy Physics in Barcelona, Spain … research with the Accelerators Lab at MIT.
High School: A 2008 graduate of Ross S. Sterling High School … second team all-state in the 100 fly … honorable mention all-state in the 200 IM …second team All-American and first team all-state in water polo in 2007 … helped lead his water polo team to a state championship in 2007 … Summa Cum Laude … Academic All-American … National Honor Society.
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Constraint Logic Programming
Overview
Constraint logic programming, the notion of computing with partial information, is becoming recognized as a way of dramatically improving on the current generation of programming languages. This collection presents the best of current work on all aspects of language design gathers work on original constraints and on top-level implementation..
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For 10 years, Project Teams of MIT Sloan MBA students visited the Chinese campuses participating in the MIT-China Management Education Project to teach IMBA students about career-related issues not usually included in their curriculum. In Spring 2008, Project Team was replaced with China Lab, a new stage in collaborative student activity. Working in small IMBA-MBA teams, Chinese and MIT Sloan students form 12 four-person teams for three-month project internships. Each team — two IMBAs, two MIT Sloan MBAs — partners with a Chinese entrepreneurial firm, conducting a consulting project on the firm's greatest challenges. Mid-way through the program, each team spends two weeks on-site at the firm's headquarters, and the IMBAs come to MIT Sloan at the end of April as the project concludes. China Lab thus builds on the G-Lab model by integrating for-credit classroom-based education, faculty mentoring, and real work for real impact. China Lab so far has brought together 104 students and 23 companies, spread throughout the greater Beijing, Guangzhou, and Shanghai regions.
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Beyonce Named ’2012 World’s Most Beautiful Woman’
Beyoncé, perhaps you’ve heard of her, has been dubbed “World’s Most Beautiful Woman” by People Magazine.
According to an interview with the mag, Beyoncé is back to her pre-pregnancy weight and feeling great. Shazam! In fact, Beyoncé says that giving birth to her baby, Blue Ivy, has made her feel more beautiful than ever. Beyoncé also allegedly croons one-of-a-kind tunes to her daughter and “loves” changing diapers. That’s possibly a huge load of crap, both figuratively and literally.
We’d love to hear these one-of-kind tunes, and probably will, considering her husband loves releasing titles about the little kid. Possible song titles include ‘Beautiful Crier’, ‘Check on it-The Kid is Crying Again’, ‘If I Were a Boy — This Baby Would Be a Medical Miracle’ and ‘Single Ladies — You’re So Damn Lucky.’
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How to Propose Like a Man
Valentine’s Day is coming up and a lot of guys are maybe contemplating asking their lady to marry them. Here’s a quick guide on how not to mess it up.
Know the Answer – We’ve all seen the YouTube videos of the marriage proposal fails, so know what she’s going to say. Before you pop the question, you should have already had some discussions about getting married. If you haven’t had those discussions already, you may want to bring up some of these topics: income sharing, starting a family and where you’ll live, but don’t preface these discussions by saying, “We need to talk.” We hate that. Instead, when you see kids at a store or running around the neighborhood, casually bring it up like, “You ever think about having kids?” If she says yes, then ask, “Have you ever thought about having kids…with…me?” Or if you’re at a wedding, ask her if she has ever thought about what her wedding would be like. If she readily gives you answers, that’s a good sign. If she gets uncomfortable and clams up, then you know she isn’t ready.
Be You – If you try and do a super duper over the top proposal and it’s just not “you”, then she may expect you to be super duper over the top all the time every day.
Buy a Ring You Can Afford – You may want to give her a huge sparkler, but if it’s way more than you can afford, don’t do it. It’s better to get a smaller diamond now and start off your life on the right financial foot, rather than begin your life together in hock to your eyeballs. Give it a few years and after you’re making more money, take the smaller diamond, split it into earrings, or reset it in a pendant and get a bigger diamond ring.
Ask Her Dad First – Regardless of how intimidating he may be, you need to ask him, especially if your girlfriend has a close relationship with her father. You’ll score major brownie points with him and likely your future Mother-in-Law. The only exception to this rule is if she has absolutely no relationship whatsoever with her Dad, then you can skip it, but you may want to check with her mother.
When in Doubt – Go with the small, classy and private. If you know she’s easily embarrassed, don’t go anyplace where you’re going to have an audience. Instead, rent a limo to take her to a nice dinner (maybe the place you went on your first date) then take a walk hand in hand through your favorite city park and pop the question there. Have a bottle of champagne in the cooler of the limo to celebrate the occasion. Or, call her bestie and her sister and tell them what you’re up to and have a few bottles of champagne on hand and after you pop the question in the park, drive around and grab them so they can be a part of the celebration.
These are all very romantic gestures that show you care about her feelings and the people in her life which may just make her a little more likely to say yes.
How did your man propose?
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Global Sales Increases for Wal-Mart Help the U.S.
Wal-Mart reported a 1.1% same-store sales gain, at the lower end of its 1% to 2% forecast (see chart above). While results were better than expected at the company's Sam's Clubs, same-store sales at its namesake chain rose just 0.3% amid persistent weakness in apparel and home-related items."
From the report "Globalization and Employment by U.S. Multinationals: A Framework and Facts," by Matthew Slaughter, economist at Dartmouth:
"Wal-Mart supports its international operations at its headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, where it employs over 15,000 people. Roughly 1,500 associates in its information systems division are responsible for coordinating the worldwide distribution systems that move Wal-Mart’s products to ten countries around the globe. Before Wal-Mart began to expand overseas in the mid-1990s, most of these 1,500 jobs did not exist."
Bottom Line: Despite somewhat weak same-store sales for Wal-Mart, notice that Net Sales for all Wal-Mart Stores increased by 5.5% in May (see chart above), and note also that international sales for Wal-Mart increased 14.2% in May and 16.4% over the last 17 weeks.
This points another way that globalization helps the American economy - even if U.S. sales are slow, companies like Wal-Mart might be experiencing strong sales overseas, which helps support and expand the 15000 Wal-Mart jobs in Arkansas coordinating an expanding worldwide distribution system to support double-digit sales increases OUTSIDE the U.S.
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"Today there is a rising outcry in the United States against the global engagement of its multinational firms. Gloom and doom forecasts abound of the dire impact foreign expansion will have on the U.S. economy"...
Hmmm, so maybe just maybe if the US wants to stay competitive some of the inane socialist baggage put on American business (thereby increasing the cost of the product or service) by the pandering politicos will have to be removed...
Speaking of pandering politicos remember Halliburton ...
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He knew it was gone even before it came out of Jarrod Washburn's hand.
"I called it," said Ramirez, soaked in champagne and water following Friday's 8-6 victory to complete the sweep of Anaheim in the ALDS. "I told [Mike] Timlin that David had not hit a home run in four days and it was time for it. The pitch. Boom! He came through."
Come through Ortiz did, all the way to the American League Championship Series. The big left-handed hitter's game winning two-run home run off Angels starter-turned reliever Washburn came on the first pitch he saw in the 10th inning and propelled the home team into the next round of the playoffs.
The pitch was a slider and it crossed the plate high in the hitting zone. Then it was gone to opposite field in a flash and another memorable moment in Boston Red Sox history had arrived instantly.
"Well, in that situation, let me tell you, I wasn't really thinking about hitting a home run," Ortiz said. "I wanted to have a good at-bat. I wanted to at least get on base. But when you just think about hitting the ball, have good contact with the ball, that's what happens."
The home run sailed a few rows over the wall in left field to set off a chorus of cheers and hugs throughout the 35,547 in attendance at Fenway Park. Pinch-runner Pokey Reese was mobbed at the plate by his teammates as he scored the first run on the home run and when Ortiz jumped on home plate, he disappeared in a sea of red, white and blue.
It was exactly what Ramirez had said it would be, only more.
"I was looking for a pitch in the strike zone," Ortiz said. "They were making good pitches the whole series against me, so I was just trying to lock myself in and see a pitch that I can hit."
Either the Yankees or Twins await the Red Sox in the next round. But immediately after the game, the only thing on the Red Sox's mind was celebration and who could wet who with buckets of water, beer and champagne in a clubhouse that lacked only a slide to be a full-fledged water park .
Ortiz, sporting goggles over his eyes and soaked uniform, could not wipe the smile off his face. He couldn't wipe off all the water that was being thrown on his head, either.
It's hard to blame Ortiz because nobody wearing a Red Sox uniform in that clubhouse wanted to do anything but savor the moment. Family and friends of the team eventually trickled into the clubhouse -- many congratulating Ortiz -- to enjoy the victory with their loved ones.
"David is one of those guys that I couldn't have been happier for anybody in the big leagues," Red Sox first baseman Doug Mientkiewicz said. "For what that man has gone through in the last three or four years, my gosh. The one thing I told him when I hugged him when he crossed that plate was, 'Momma would be proud.' He lost his momma a couple of years ago, and she was a big part of his life and the first thing I thought of when he hit it was, 'Come on momma, blow it out of here.'"
Johnny Damon echoed the sentiments, along the way adding his own brand of comedy to Ortiz's game-winner. Damon, who had earlier in the week affectionately referred to his teammates as "idiots," jokingly said he's not sure if Ortiz can swim if he ever had to, but he's sure his buddy can hit.
And on this night, hitting was all that mattered.
"Our problem on our team is we've got so many guys who are so valuable, but when he came up we knew he was going to have a good at-bat," Damon said. "We didn't know it was going to be that good but we'll take it. He's the man."
Said Red Sox manager Terry Francona, "Literally, I looked at [Kevin] Millar and I said, 'Can he hit a home run here?' It wasn't that far out of my mouth where it seemed like once it left his bat our players knew it was gone before I did."
The Red Sox needed a hero and early on, it appeared to be Bronson Arroyo. The right-hander allowed only two runs on three hits and stymied the Angels offense for six strong innings.
But things changed in the seventh when the Angels tied the game at 6 with a grand slam by Vladimir Guerrero and the bullpen, led by Brendan Donnelly and Frank Rodriguez took over.
Rodriguez went on to complete 2 2/3 effective innings before giving way to Washburn with two outs in the 10th. Ramirez's prediction and the storybook ending for Red Sox fans followed soon after.
"Manny looks over at me and tells me David is going to hit one out," Timlin said. "David does and Manny just looks at me and says 'I told you so.' He did. He really did.").
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October 25 2009 / Sunday / Pre-Conference Workshops
W15 / Widgets, Gadgets, & Mobile Apps / 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Jason A. Clark / Digital Initiatives Librarian, Montana State University Libraries ;
Karen A Coombs / Head of Web Services, University of Houston Libraries ;
Michael P Sauers /Technology Innovation Librarian, Nebraska Library Commission, gadgets, and micro library apps that allow users to have basic library search and browse functions in these new user environments free from the catalog or library website. They demo andteach how to design mobile applications, use Google Gadgets, customize Flickr widgets, tweak Yahoo! Pipes, and integrate OpenSearch browser plug-ins to create new modes of access for library journals, books, articles, special collections and much more.
Come learn how to play in these new environments and to give users options for searching and consuming library materials in their own learning spaces.
W17 / Twitter: Enabling Customer Conversations /1:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Michael P Sauers, Technology Innovation Librarian, Nebraska Library Commission ; Christa Burns, OCLC Member Services Coordinator, Nebraska Library Commission; David Lee King, Digital Branch & Services Manager, Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library
So you’ve got a Twitter account and some followers but you’re not sure what’s next. Let top library Twitters show you how to make the most of your tweets. In this interactive workshop you’ll discover how to spice up your Twitter homepage, take advantage of the many Twitter tools available online, and learn how to use Twitter to actively engage your customers in conversations.
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October 26 2009 / Monday / General Conference
B102 / Creating Connections & Social Reference in Libraries / 11:15 AM – 12:00 PM
David W. Free, Editor-in-Chief, C&RL News, & Marketing & Communications Specialist, Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) ; Margaret Smith, Physical Sciences Librarian, New York University
In the current economic climate, libraries of all types have the opportunity to be positioned at the center of their user communities by providing relevant events, services, and opportunities for outreach and creating space for sharing, discussion, and connection.
Free discusses how libraries can apply the models of online community building, customer service, and outreach with free online social tools and tagging to encourage new connections with local communities. Smith discusses using social reference sites such as AskMetafilter, Yahoo! Answers, and AskOnTwitter to allow members of online communities to ask and answer each other’s questions, creating an invaluable archive of community experience and expertise. She highlights implementations of this new social reference model using group blogs, wikis, and other online forums to allow open discussion and resolution of questions from users, library staff, and librarians alike.
She touches on how to “grow your own” social reference site and address the issues of library authority, community, and trust.
B103 / Micro Interactions, Conversations, & Customers: Sweet Tweet Strategies / 1:15 PM – 2:00 PM
David Lee King, Digital Branch & Services Manager, Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library ; Amy Kearns, Program Coordinator, Central Jersey Regional Library Cooperative ; Julie Strange, Statewide Coordinator, Maryland AskUsNow!
Twitter, Facebook statuses, YouTube comments, blog comments ... where do you start? King describes the interactions taking place within modern social networks and explains what types of conversations work well in different social network settings, gives ideas on achieving user engagement, and provides tips on holding conversations online ... in 140 characters or less.
Top Twitterers illustrate how to use this popular application to connect with customers and colleagues, reach new users, and get 24/7 personal and professional development using “Twitterbrarians.”
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October 27 2009 / Tuesday / General Conference / Track C – Mobile Trends & Practices
C201 & C202 / Dreaming, Designing, & Using Mobile Library Platforms / 10:30 AM – 12:15 PM
Tom Ipri, Head, Media & Computer Services, University of Nevada-Las Vegas (UNLV) ; Jason Griffey, Head of Library Information Technology, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga; R. Toby Greenwalt, Adult Services Librarian, Skokie Public Library ; Jason A. Clark, Digital Initiatives Librarian, Montana State University Libraries ; Matt Benzing, Information Technology Librarian, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ; Michael P Sauers, Technology Innovation Librarian, Nebraska Library Commission ; Christa Burns, OCLC Member Services Coordinator, Nebraska Library Commission
Ipri and Griffey start this double session by explaining why you can’t just replicate your existing website for mobile users—needs and technologies are different in the mobile world. They discuss how libraries must rethink their services and go with completely new models in light of ubiquitous computing and connectivity.
Greenwalt discusses the Skokie Public Library’s “going mobile” LSTA grant project to develop a suite of mobile tools, including a mobile website, catalog, text messaging alerts, and mobile reference service.
Clark talks about delivering video and images through optimized websites that work with the next generation of smartphones and mobile devices (iPhone, iPod Touch, BlackBerry Storm, Palm Pre, Google Android). He discusses challenges and advantages of developing mobile sites, the debate between native smartphone apps versus mobile web apps, best practices for mobile web design, and the lessons learned in development processes.
Benzing discusses creating alternative versions of a website for mobile users, utilizing information needs of users from surveys, focus groups, and usability testing.
The last segment of the session focuses on mobile reference, as Sauers and Burns look at the basics of using the Internet on regular cell phones as well as smartphones.
C203 / Putting Your Library on a Mobile Phone / 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM / Moderator: Cindy Cunningham, Director of Partner Programs, OCLC
Greg Carpenter, CEO & Technical Lead, Boopsie & OCLC’s Partner WorldCat Mobile Pilot ; Bruce Washburn, Research Engineer, OCLC & iPhone WorldCat Search API Web App Creator ; Jeff Sharkey, Android Developer, Compare Everywhere App, Google
This demo and lively panel discussion highlights what OCLC has learned so far in reaching library users through their mobile phones. Hear from three different developers about how they approached working with WorldCat library data in the mobile format, and how each one designed the optimal user experience—it’s so much more than screen size. Learn more about how to approach “going mobile” with your library, what factors to consider from the library side, and see what’s possible technically.
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C204 / Mobile Marketing / 3:15 PM – 4:00 PM
Nancy Dowd Director of Marketing, New Jersey State Library
Mobile marketing is being touted as the next big thing in marketing. Studies say it is the best way to reach Hispanic and African American parents, 20-somethings, and teens, but is it right for libraries? Dowd reports on the NJSL’s four pilot programs designed to answer this question for small, large, urban, and county libraries, and shares what was learned—the pros and cons of mobile marketing including specific campaign ideas and costs.
C205 / When Students Go Mobile / 4:15 PM – 5:00 PM
Kristen Yarmey-Tylutki, Digital Services Librarian, The University of Scranton Weinberg Memorial Library; Kristine Ferry, Director of Web Services, UC Irvine Libraries; Lisa Sibert, Electronic Resources Acquisitions Librarian, UC Irvine Libraries; Holly Tomren, Electronic Resources, UC Irvine Libraries
As smartphones become ubiquitous on campus, they are changing and will continue to change the way that students find, access, and use information. As information professionals, academic librarians must quickly adapt their reference services and library instruction to these new means of information usage.
The first presentation looks at the functionality and capabilities of smartphones and how the devices can either help or hinder students’ achievement of the learning outcomes outlined in the ACRL’s Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education.
The second set of presenters addresses the challenges involved in providing library content and services to mobile users. They discuss offering an entire library experience to mobile users, discovery tools available (mobile-friendly OPACs, union catalogs, library webpages and subject guides), best practices for cataloging electronic resources specific to mobile devices, as well as IT issues, collection development trends, licensing issues, and gathering usage statistics.
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President Seeks Path Forward Beyond Troubles
After a turbulent week, the Obama administration will try to push past the political furor with an emphasis on executive actions and bills that the president believes could pass Congress.
A Black Mound of Canadian Oil Waste Is Rising Over Detroit
Refining Canada’s petroleum-soaked oil sands produces petroleum coke, and the question of what to do with it has found at least one answer in Detroit, where a large coke pile covers an entire city block.
Trying Unlikely Comeback, Ex-Iran President Strikes Chord With Public
Though once widely reviled, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and his reputation as an economic pragmatist and modernizer seem to be resonating with the Iranian public.
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- DealBook: SAC Says It Will Curb Cooperation With Insider Inquiry
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What would you do with a billion dollars? Pay off debt? Help your family? Buy a hot Lamborghini? Or how about…gasp…give it all away to charity? Stop laughing and keep reading. There’s an actual website devoted to billionaires who want nothing more than to give their cash away in the name of philanthropy and charity. It’s called givingpledge.org. The richest of the rich declare their intention to give the bulk of their money away either during their lifetime or after their death.
They make a public promise on the website along with a letter explaining the reasons behind their decision. On the website you’ll find such recognizable names as George Lucas and Warren Buffett. Lucas states that he wants to devote his movie-making wealth to education, and Buffett says that 99% of his fortune will go to philanthropy. And you thought you were generous.
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RIM Unveils New OS Based On QNX 262
New submitter HommeDeJava writes "Research In Motion unveiled a new operating system for its tablet and smartphones at the company's BlackBerry developer conference in San Francisco. Called BlackBerry BBX, the new OS combines features of the existing BlackBerry OS and its recently acquired real-time QNX OS. Could BBX attract software developers and spur interest from consumers?"
As a blackberry user, I don't need a crystal ball (Score:5, Insightful)
I already know the future. Fail, of the epic kind.
Re:As a blackberry user, I don't need a crystal ba (Score:5, Insightful)
I agree. Too little, too late. It'll take years for them to turn things around, and they just don't have the time.
Re:As a blackberry user, I don't need a crystal ba (Score:4, Interesting)
Bimbo Newton Crosby, RIM is a corpse. If this would have happened five or even three years ago? they may have had a shot. but the ship has done sailed and from the looks of it the final tally will be Apple #1 with Android trading spots with iOS from time to time, so iOS and Android own 1 and 2, and MSFT buying their way into third place but not having a prayer of taking #2 much less the coveted #1 spot.
With mobile there is always a chance of something coming from out of left field, after all who would have thought 6 years ago that Android would suddenly explode, but RIM just doesn't have it. They don't have the hardware, the designs, nor the buzz, and even the CxO types are all running around playing with their iPhones and HTC Androids, its over. I just wonder who will buy them out for the IP, MSFT or Google? Maybe Samsung?
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Re:As a blackberry user, I don't need a crystal ba (Score:4, Insightful)
Key measures are a) profit share and b) share of web browsing c) number of app downloads and total number of (quality?) apps availble; in other words, what matters is how much the user use and can use their phones. Android will overtake Apple in these measures but it is taking much longer [wikipedia.org]. If you think like this Apple is still ahead so far (and only just, and only if you include the iPod touch!).
Incidentally, this shows that WP7 has almost no hope. If you are an app developer you will do an iPhone app and some will do an Android app to show you support "alternative" people. Soon it will be the other way round (in fact I'd say that it's already the other way round in some markets). The inertia you need to overcome the leader is too much. The only reason that Android is succeeding is that Apple left a low end in the market available for them to develop in. Now the market has to be analysed as the 1990's PC market. Apple is Apple. Android is Windows and Windows is OS2, a late entry by an an over-arrogant computing incumbent.
Re:As a blackberry user, I don't need a crystal ba (Score:5, Insightful)
Don't get ahead of yourselves.
Let's not forget that Apple came back from a far worse shape than this in the late 90s. It is way too early to say that "they just don't have time".
They better put a move on it, pronto, would be a much more accurate statement.
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Apple also doesn't have a dead dog in the race, with frequent outages of service due to a single point of email and message failure controlled by their proprietary network. Apple also innovated the hell out of their products. RIM has not done this. It's a "me too" effort at best, and not a very good one.
Outside of organizations married to its corp-friendly proprietary nonsense, RIM has zero reputation right now.
As a developer, I wouldn't spare a thought towards porting my applications to that platform. It's
correction (Score:2, Funny)
not pronto, procnto is the process manager in qnx.
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Let's not forget that Apple came back from a far worse shape than this in the late 90s. It is way too early to say that "they just don't have time".
Have you even heard one of their co-CEOs talk? One is all techno-babble and the other is a bean-counter with no real product experience. None of them are the caliber of Steve Jobs, and as a company, RIM is not the caliber of pre-Jobs Apple in the 90s (which was still quite innovative, just mismanaged).
Fire one or both of the current leadership, and we can talk turnaround. As it is RIM does not have the DNA for a massive course-change.
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I thought this was going to be a cut and paste of the BSD is dying usenet message from the 1990s.
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they could simply port the encryption and infrastructure to Android... I still believe they make awesome hardware and it's a shame to see it go to waste because of the same mistake done over and over and over again
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Given the legal challenges to Android right now, I would imagine they don't want to put all of their eggs in one basket. I can't blame them. It could turn into a win if the OS is well accepted. The game isn't over till it's over. If anyone in recent history has taught us that, it's Apple.
Android popped up in a smartphone market ruled by iOS and is now a huge player. RIM could pull the same move, although the OS won't be available for free, it could gain them needed traction in a market that is quickly slipp
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Android popped up in a smartphone market ruled by iOS and is now a huge player.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I remember seeing bunches of reports on Android back in the late Palm T|E days competing with Dell's Windows based mobile. iOS wasn't even on the radar then.
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That's correct.
Android was demonstrated and shown off a few weeks before the iPhone was even announced back in 2007. There's a CES 2007 video showing Android.
Looking remarkably... blackberry-ish or WinMo ish with a 5-way navigator and stuff like that.
Then the iPhone was announced, and a serious amount of re-engineering happe
Re:As a blackberry user, I don't need a crystal ba (Score:5, Funny)
I already know the future. Fail, of the epic kind.
I prefer fail of the EEPROM kind.
Re:As a blackberry user, I don't need a crystal ba (Score:5, Funny)
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That's the EPROM. EEPROMs are Electrically Erasable.
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Agreed.
I own a BB and a Playbook. The Playbook, BTW, i bought at 50% off with bonus accessories..
As for the Playbook, its got a really nice screen, responsive, good feel. And thats about it. I'm using it as an ebook reader - I read a lot of PDFs and the ei
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I have a BB Bold, which I agree is a good phone. Haven't gone to OS6. Has RIM figured out that people actually send html mail? As for the Playbook, I looked for one when they first cam out, but couldn't find a single working demo anywhere they were sold, so I gave up. I'd say RIM is toast.
haha... the announcement itself was the start it (Score:3)
QNX was NOT fast. It was however quite efficient and bragged for years about task switching times
Re:As a blackberry user, I don't need a crystal ba (Score:4, Interesting)
BB is still entrenched in Corporate America. There's massive inertia there.
Oh yeah? Is that why RIM's morning general session at its conference had a heavy emphasis on games? [infoworld.com] From what I can tell, the most recent BlackBerry hardware has been targeted squarely at the teenage/college student market. Apparently BlackBerry Instant Messaging is more popular than SMS in some parts of the UK and Europe. Meanwhile, white collar workers have increasingly been demanding to use their own devices in the workplace; The Economist even did a special report on the trend a week or so ago. You think the general public is buying up BlackBerrys? Nope. It's iPhones they want to use in the office, and once it's the C-level execs asking for it, the IT department won't have much choice but to allow it. Get rid of the BES lock-in and it's game over for RIM.
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Corporate America is rapidly shifting to support Android and iPhones (executives are demanding, and getting it). Two years ago, PwC was 36k some odd blackberries, today it supports iOS and Android and people are moving them in droves. Blackberry has nothing.
good enough for nuclear reactors (Score:3, Insightful)
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You shouldn't have been rated down, but yeah I don't see this being a negative. With all the professional users of blackberry phones, their tablet's almost assured a user base.
MOD ABUSE above (Score:2)
good enough for nuclear reactors
... sounds like an industrial strength, secure platform that might actually be adopted by governments, enterprise companies, medical, etc.
not sure how it will be marketed to education and gaming though, except by showing nice 3d framerates
Seriously, how is this modded -1? QNX is all about special purpose dedicated applications. If the military needed a specialized tablet QNX may very well be the OS of choice, perhaps RIM the supplier. Likely, no. Plausible, yes. Similar story for specialized tablets for medical use, say something rated to be used in an operating room (note that this is more about the hardware than software, an iPad probably can't be sterilized without inadvertently destroying the electronics) to control equipment, display da
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In order for QNX to meet the specialized requirements you're thinking of, every part of the OS has to be certified, which means nothing Blackberry produces will be useful to the military for 2-4 years at the soonest or it will be stripped down to the point that RIM will have no advantage.
Contrary to popular belief QNX isn't that impressive anymore. It was at one point, but theres nothing about it now that isn't a well known and well understood concept, at least when your thinking of RTOS and security stand
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If you can boast an OS that doesn't lag while multitasking (eg. Music over bluetooth in the background) while doing other stuff (education, games, whatever) and furthermore that it'll keep running demanding workloads for months without becoming unstable or crashing, I think you'll be able to get pretty broad interest in the platform.
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But what advantage does QNX offer here? I sure want an RTOS in my car's anti-lock braking system, but I couldn't care less if my phone is "just" a Unix derivate. If Linux is good enough to run Google and Wall Street, and BSD is good enough to run a huge chunk of Internet routers, then either of them are good enough to run my phone.
Enterprises are mainly built around Unix, IBM, or Windows. Medical is very often centered around Windows. Education gets by fine on Macs and Windows. RTOSes aren't especially good
oh QNX (Score:3)?
If you like ASM sure (Score:2, Informative)
The entire OS is written in assembly along with the applications. So if thats your thing then go for it.
Re:If you like ASM sure (Score:4, Informative)
Sounds incredibly unlikely, considering it's ported to ARM, MIPS, PPC, i386, etc.
Vaguely Unixy, Tiny Microkernel, Fast (Score:2)
Yeah, it's been a decade or two since I've seen QNX too. It was a real-time OS with a message-passing microkernel that was only 4KB, which meant that it could be running on-chip in cache (assuming the cache didn't have better things to do, which it probably did, but 4-8KB was a typical cache size for a processor back then.)
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The big question is not the core POSIX APIs, but how you do UI, high-level networking and so on.
For UI, QNX has Photon, but I very much doubt that it's what they'll use in this thing; and even if they do, they'll likely wrap it in something higher-level (it's vanilla C).
QNX is not another unix implementation (Score:5, Informative)
I last booted QNX something like 10 years ago...back then it was realtime, unix based (I think?), and relatively promising. I remember it was even more responsive than Linux (which was was more responsive than Windows)
... Anyone have experience programming for QNX? If it's "just another unix" shouldn't porting to it be straightforward?
QNX is a real-time operating system. For programmer convenience some things are unix-like. However unlike Linux and other unix implementations QNX is a *hard* real-time OS, you are guaranteed that things will happen within certain timeframes. QNX is targeting embedded environments, in particular environments that require incredible reliability - for example military and aerospace. QNX is exactly the sort of thing you use when you are building a mars rover.
Re:QNX is not another unix implementation (Score:4, Interesting)
Except, of course, the Mars Rovers used VxWorks.
:-) (Another hard real-time embedded OS which is used quite a bit more than QNX.)
I disagree (Score:2)
QNX is distributed, network aware implementation of POSIX APIs on top of a rather unique realtime kernel.
But it is a unix-based system, with most of the GPL tools cross-compiled. Your command line doesn't change much, if at all. The QNX GUI (if it survived the merger with Blackberry tech) is tight, slick, low-profile interface. Very responive.
Personally I'm interested in developing for any one platform, so I focus on Java 6 JEE based services that will eventually provide for HTML5 web interfaces to
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As I said, the question is whether you think Unix is a kernel or the tools.
If the tools and APIs are compatible, good enough. It's a unix system.
Every manufacturer's implementation of Unix uses a different kernel. If you think they're still on the original AT&T SVR4 or BSD 4.2 code bases, you're way off course. They've all been tweaked and tuned, with different advantages and disadvantages for scalability, tuning, and management.
QNX is another kernel, nothing more. A very slick kernel, but ju
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Yes and no, it's a no obfuscated obtuse set of APIs to program against. We can't even get stuff that worked in QNX 5 to compile under QNX 6. Two years ago one of teams decided to upgrade an existing system that ran QNX 5 and some proprietary hardware. They just planned an OS upgrade to QNX6 and swapping a few of the specialty cards out. It still doesn't work two years later. We could have ported the code over to Linux and been done a year ago. It really didn't help that mid-stream they got bought out
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I'm assuming you weren't very close to the project, seeing as there is no QNX 5.
Assuming the code was actually from QNX 4, I don't know why you expected it to be a simple recompile. QNX 6 was a completely new operating system rewritten from the ground up. Just imagine getting your old Mac OS9 programs to compile for OSX.
You're right, I think it was QNX4. I try to distance myself from that project given how over budget and way past schedule they are, but I keep getting asked to help with basic problems like networking. They really got in over their heads with the assumption that they could just upgrade QNX. I think they were envisioning more of a Windows 2000 to XP kind of upgrade. It didn't help that vendors kept claiming they had drivers for the hardware - the team wasted lots of time re-writing and debugging drivers
Why Not Android Already? (Score:2)
If RIM is going to switch OSes, why wouldn't they go with Android? Cheaper to obtain and support, far larger app and developer base, easier to market it than "QNX? What's that?", bigger security community.
RIM is just trying to protect its "different" status, despite the actual cost/benefit.
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I have a feeling that they're following Palm down the long winding road of obsolescence. A Unix OS that isn't compatible with either of the two main players.
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Because they're really really REALLY fucking stupid. That's why.
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This argument shows up here all the time, and it's lame as hell.
When Ford was doing alright, why didn't GM and Chrysler just sell CKD fords? They'd have done better, in the short term at least.
When Apple came into the game, symbian was number one by a long long stretch. Why didn't they just paste an apple logo onto a Nokia phone?
If you go to android, you're just another commodity manufacturer. You can make money that way, sure, but when you hit it right, with your own design, the thing prints money.
That sa
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QNX and Linux are _really_ different. QNX is a realtime OS for embedded applications, since as controlling car engines and factory equipment. This means that performance is extremely reliable (realtime OSs guarantee no glitching/slowdowns), it never crashes, and it runs efficiently on very limited hardware, on pretty much any CPU. For example, QNX is the OS running 200+ models of cars, in 20m+ cars on the road. It's proprietary and expensive, but for some applications you don't care about that as much as yo
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If RIM is going to switch OSes, why wouldn't they go with Android?
Maybe you guys suggesting RIM "just go android" are living in lala land? Why not just hand over the keys of the castle to Google and be done with it all?
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If RIM is going to switch OSes, why wouldn't they go with Android?
Yeah why not just do what everyone else is doing.
far larger app and developer base
Blackberry runtime for Android apps. They've already tapped into that community to a degree.
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One fantastic reason is native executable code, however they are now too late to the game for it to make any difference.
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I'm quite sure that the patents Microsoft owns are already needed by RIM (they most likely have a licensing agreement where they share patents). Switching OS's would make little difference on how much they have to pay Microsoft.
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Comeback Kid (Score:3)
It sure seems like RIM is thrashing around looking for a path forward. Apple seemed to suffer from the same thing, limping along with an OS that lacked basic features like memory protection and preemptive multitasking until 2001, but look at them now.
Are RIM users loyal enough to wait out the problem years?
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Well... (Score:3)
If, by some strange chance, the answer is yes, then yes, they should come flocking.
Otherwise, their fortunes will likely continue to depend on how pleasant their systems are to develop for, and how many devices capable of running applications are in the hands of users interested in buying them...
By all accounts, QNX is an accomplished OS; but it doesn't(in itself) solve the direst of problems with RIM's 3rd party dev efforts, which are not so much kernel limitations as user environment, dev tool, and API ones. If RIM can outperform its historical self in those areas, good for them. Otherwise, this "BBX" is going to offer the delightful choice of the same old blackberry crap, or Adobe Flash running like a wounded fainting goat [wikipedia.org] on some flavor of ARM SoC; but with a rock-solid foundation...
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QNX Neutrino (Score:5, Interesting)
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If properly utilized, I could see Blackberry overpowering all other mobile phone manufacturers.
I have a feeling, based on this blog entry from an attempted Playbook developer [jamiemurai.com] that unfortunately it's not going to be "properly utilized".
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QNX was a fast and fun OS when I ran it back around 2002/2003 but damn it was buggy and unstable mess, I could crash by playing a mp3 or make the file system do a little bit of work. It sucked on my desktop.
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Funny. I would have said that QNX crashes often in 1988.
Are their any QNX success stories?
The issue with obscure operating systems is in the device driver support. If the project will take two to three years to develop, and be in the market for another five to ten years, then several different hardware platforms will be required. If you are not running an operating system that supports a wide range of hardware with pre-built drivers, then multiple different device drivers may be needed over the life of
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Go check out a playbook, and prepare to be disappointed. They botched like a bunch of, well, hardware manufacturers who know nothing about software.
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QNX is probably the best operating system ever.
I think you forgot to insert the "Imma let you finish" part.
Can you run Android on the new OS, BBX? (Score:2)
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The real news here, folks! (Score:2)
You know what I find really interesting about this story? BlackBerry is trying to save their hide by moving their telephone O/S to a Unix variant. Now that iOS and Android are both Unix-derived, it's old hat, almost a given. But it was just a few years ago that it was understood that Unix was old, antiquated technology to be replaced by newer, sexier Windows/Mac systems.
What a difference a decade makes! Linux has since come to dominate the server and engineering workstation spaces, MacOS has been reborn as
Re:If it's not as closed as iOS/(locked down)Andro (Score:5, Interesting)
Seems to me that that's really the only way to get in the game at this point--make things as easy as possible for developers. Free SDK, free publishing license, and higher payouts for devs. Hopefully RIM has learned a lot from these days [jamiemurai.com] (and if you read the followups, it looks like they're making an effort).
Though I've never owned or really even used a Blackberry device, I do wish them well, just like I wish Microsoft well. I don't want the only players to be Google and Apple anymore than I wanted the only players to be RIM and Microsoft. We could use more honest competition in this space.
Re:If it's not as closed as iOS/(locked down)Andro (Score:4, Insightful)
Apple pays 70%.
Suppose RIM were ultra generous and paid 100%.
So long as I sell 43% more on the Apple platform, I'm still making more money.
Put it another way, I'd have to sell 70% of my iPhone sales on the RIM before I made as much.
Ain't going to happen.
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That's assuming you develop apps that are exclusive to one or the other. What if RIM had compilation software that could read 90% of your iOS files untouched?
100% Pure Java (Score:2)
What if RIM had compilation software that could read 90% of your iOS files untouched?
That'd be a change. The last time I looked into BlackBerry, everything had to be in 100% Pure Java or in another language that compiles to JVM bytecode. And I don't think Objective-C is one of those languages.
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Good point.
To elaborate, people tend to own only one phone, so in terms of app sales each phone's market is a separate market, which you would independently decide whether to sell into. That is, you're not choosing either to sell into Apple or RIMs market, you're choosing each one independently. If you can sell enough to be profitable as an iOS app, you will do that, and (assuming you have the resources) if you can sell enough to be profitable as a RIM app, you will do that. And so on for each mobile OS. Th
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There's a bit more to it. Sure, if your app is trivial, then adding another platform is a simple formula of cost vs profit. But, for any app with any real complexity, each platform you write a native app for increases your design complexity in a non-linear fashion.
For example, if you have just one platform, adding a feature is a simple process of of writing that feature, testing (etc), and deploying.
Now, if you have two, you need to write the feature twice, test it twice, and coordinate deployment across m
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I'm assuming RIM isn't completely clueless and doesn't require developers to only give exclusive apps.
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You can write Flex apps that are compatible with iOS, Android and Playbook all at once. Even if you don't like Air or Flex, you can use HTML5 for your iOS app and port to WebWorks for Playbook and BlackBerry.
How much overhead per year? (Score:2)
So long as I sell 43% more on the Apple platform, I'm still making more money.
In the lower (that is, hobby and portfolio-building) sales bracket, that also depends on how much it costs to keep your developer certificate renewed. On iOS, that's an overhead of $250 per year: $100 per year for the iOS Developer Program and an estimated $600 for a new Mac every few years to run the new version of Xcode that is required to target new devices but isn't compatible with your older Mac. How much does RIM charge per year for access to the SDK, access to run homemade apps on a device, and publi
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On iOS, that's an overhead of $250 per year: $100 per year for the iOS Developer Program and an estimated $600 for a new Mac every few years
You do of course also have to replace a PC every few years if that's your development platform.
Let's stick with like for like. The overhead is $99 per year for an iOS developer to get on the App Store.
For Android it's $25 per year to get on the Google Android Market. And/or $99 per year to get on the Amazon store.
Test devices are more expensive for iOS, but you won't need to buy as many.
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Then perhaps I should charge the difference between the cheapest PC and the cheapest Mac. For example, compare a $1000 MacBook to an (admittedly heavier) $400 laptop running Windows. That's still $600 for a Mac.
Hey if you're scratching around to save money, the MacMini is the cheapest Mac. $599.
But really, if you're choosing your development platform based on what's cheapest, then you're destined for a pitiful life.
If you're monetarily challenged, you're better off making a good app, and selling it on the more profitable platform, covering your costs and making a profit.
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I haven't upgraded to Xcode 4.2 yet, but I fully expect to be running it on my 6 year old Macbook.
6 years old... October 18, 2005... first Intel MacBook in April 2006...
I was under the impression that Xcode 4.2 required Snow Leopard [quora.com] and Snow Leopard required an Intel CPU.
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"primarily BIS/BES services"
Yeah, how's that working out for them?
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RIM has no restrictions on how YOU sell your apps. You can put the files (.cod and
.alx) on any webserver in the world and let people download & install your app.
Unlike Apple, blackberry applications have never been a closed shop.
A one stop shop results in more app sales.
Now, the one best thing Apple did was to get your billing information FIRST so that Apple can bill your mobile account for apps.
They don't bill it to a mobile account. Apple get a credit card number and charge apps, songs, movies, whatever to that.
The Apple shills don't get it. (Score:2)
The less roadblocks you have to development, the faster that cash comes in.
Actually its all about customers ... (Score:3)
The less roadblocks you have to development, the faster that cash comes in.
Actually its the more customers you have. The hardware/platform that developers target is chosen by the customers, not the developer's convenience and preferences.
That said, what roadblocks to develop for iOS? A Mac, a device and $99 a year to publish on the app store? To be honest that is an extremely low barrier to entry.
1250 USD is a lot of money (Score:3). For people living in countries with undervalued currencies compared to the USD [wikipedia.org], 1250 USD is a lot of money. And I haven't been able to find one way or another whether high school students under age 18 are eligible.
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For students who have trouble paying for college, 1250 USD (Mac + iPT + certificate) is a lot of money.
No its not, thats 3 weeks of working McDonalds. Before your training is complete, you can own a macbook and an iOS cert, add another week and you've paid for an iPhone too.
For people living in countries with undervalued currencies compared to the USD [wikipedia.org], 1250 USD is a lot of money.
And Windows PCs are free there? No, but you're pretending they are because 'everyone owns a PC'. A full Windows license alone is ~30-40% of the cost of the entire buyin for mac development. You're making up costs based on picking and choosing what you're paying for.
No, Linux isn't a viable option to consider, you'll make exactly $0 a
You don't need Windows to make apps (Score:4, Interesting)
thats 3 weeks of working McDonalds.
Which is impractical if you're already working McDonald's to afford tuition.
And Windows PCs are free there?
Neither are Linux PCs, but a Linux PC is a lot cheaper than a Mac.
No, but you're pretending they are because 'everyone owns a PC'.
The installed base is such that one is far more likely to own a Windows PC than a Mac. Perhaps I should multiply the expected [wikipedia.org] Mac buy-in by 90% to reflect the 10% chance of already owning a Mac.
A full Windows license alone is ~30-40% of the cost of the entire buyin for mac development.
You don't need Windows to develop for certain popular platforms that compete with iOS.
Anyone under 18 can't enter legally binding contracts in any sane part of the world
I don't know about BlackBerry, but if you own a device running Android OS, you don't need to enter a legally binding contract before you're allowed to load homemade programs onto it. This is one of the differences between Android and iOS.
Actually $800, then subtract student discounts (Score:2).
Actually its $800 in hardware (mini + touch) and that is regular retail prices. Students are able to get significant discounts.
...and add a certificate . Plan on renewals for years 2, 3, and 4, and we're close to the $1250 mark that I quoted. Do students get a discount on certificates too?
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Yes, thats why I mentioned $99 a year to publish in the first post and specifically pointed out that the $800 was in reference to hardware in the second post.
Plan on renewals for years 2, 3, and 4, and we're close to the $1250 mark that I quoted. Do students get a discount on certificates too?
And now factor in that the students can sell their apps. Something that was *far* more difficult to do in the not so distant pass. Apple also lowered the barrier to reaching a large consumer market.
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And now factor in that the students can sell their apps. Something that was *far* more difficult to do in the not so distant pass. Apple also lowered the barrier to reaching a large consumer market.
Apple took the first step; Google took the next step by lowering it further.
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The less roadblocks you have to development, the faster that cash comes in.
Apple are resting on their laurels. They've done good and have come out of nowhere to dominate the market
... but Android is still outselling them. Wow. 4 million iPhone 4S sold .. who's willing to bet that will be a significant number of the total sales?
If Apple had complete faith in their product they wouldn't be trying to hamstring Samsung and Android. iPhones and iPads are cool and sexy today, that's no guarantee of future success. Ask Sony/Ericsson and Nokia, both headed for the bin heap of commodi
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Wow. 4 million iPhone 4S sold
.. who's willing to bet that will be a significant number of the total sales?
Considering that Apple sold over 13 million of the old iPhones in just the last three months, I'll take that bet
If Apple had complete faith in their product they wouldn't be trying to hamstring Samsung and Android.
Absolutely. Because when you have complete faith in your product, you don't care if someone tries to rip it off. It's times like this I wish Slashdot had a
:rolleyes: emoticon.
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Yes, because a profit seeking entity making 66% of all mobile phone profit worldwide is "failing". [asymco.com]
And before you reply with the usual slashdot retort about de
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Wow. What reality are you in? It sure isn't this one!
You have no clue at all.
Android devices are doing remarkably well, and I welcome that, but my goodness you're wide of the mark on Apple's prospects and endeavour.
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In a fantasy, sure. Reality is never so simplistic and it makes you look ignorant to suggest that it is.
I've written my own OS and apps for it, there are 0 road blocks in my way
... and not surprisingly, 0 income from it.
Somebody else can do all the work and hand you an absolutely flawless piece of perfectly functioning software and it still won't sell if no one wants it or it runs on a device that no one owns.
You can put all sorts of road blocks in front of me and it'll still be more profitable than no ro
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You have no clue. What developers care most about is how much profit is there to make.
RIM builds a failing platform, and an acquisition won't change that, nor does your 'openness' - the only thing who can change that are consumers, and they care about UX, not features.
But give it one thing that it does well, that people like and they remain with a seat in the big game. Otherwise they are as doomed as Nokia.
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I agree that what developers (companies, not always individuals) care most about is being able to make a profit on their investment. And on that front iOS wins, because they provide the best app store, and have trained millions of users to pay for software.
This is as distinct from the Android store, which is not as good, and which sells far less software per person.
But a close second (first for many individuals) is how easy it is to write software for the platform. As an extreme example, iOS is very easy to
source request... (Score:3)
I have heard this 1% > $1000 several times, although I have yet to hear a reputable source for this statistic. Apple doesn't give out such stats, at least as far as I can tell. Who provides this metric? Competitors marketing slides don't count.
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HP has launched a public beta of HP Play — a new application designed to let you synchronize your media between a PC or Mac and an HP TouchPad tablet or webOS phone. The software is based on the open source Songbird media player and right now it only lets you sync your music over a USB cable. But eventually HP plans to add wireless… Read more »
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I wouldn't presume to offer any insights into this terrible reality. I have not served and have never dealt with the horrific realities of war.
Over the weekend, The Man and I watched a movie that dealt with the redeployment of troops from Iraq: Home of the Brave (Samuel L. Jackson, Jessica Alba & Fiddy Cent). Granted, this was one of the worst movies I've seen in a while, but the point was well taken. Watching the troops attempting to meld back into their pre-combat lives was painful.
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Francis Lawrence Talks Finnick, Haymitch, and Gary Ross
In a recent interview with MTV, “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” director Francis Lawrence sat down to talk about Finnick, Haymitch, and the challenge of taking over the franchise from previous director, Gary Ross....
Bartholomew Biddle and the Very Big Wind Out Today
Gary Ross' children's book 'Bartholomew Biddle and the Very Big Wind' is being released today.
EW Talks to Gary Ross: “It was absolutely the right decision.”
Entertainment Weekly caught up with director Gary Ross to talk about his new children's book.
USA Today: Behind-the-Scenes with Elizabeth Banks and Gary Ross
Watch a behind-the-scenes clip of Elizabeth Banks as Effie Trinket and her inspiration for the character.
Sneak Peek of Hunger Games DVD/Blu-ray Behind-The-Scenes Feature
Those lucky enough to be at ComicCon today got to see a sneak peak of some behind-the-scenes footage for The Hunger Games DVD/Blu-ray. But for those of us not in San Diego, EW has released an exclusive clip. The video is a clos...
Behind the Scenes of ‘The Hunger Games’ Cover Shoot for The Hollywood Reporter
In a behind the scenes video from The Hollywood Reporter’s cover shoot, Gary Ross gave a cool shout-out to the fandom by admitting how fun it is to share his work with all the fans. “It’s a wonderful feeling when ...
Gary Ross Interview with Fandango
Thanks to one of our readers for sending a link to this new interview from Fandango with director Gary Ross. He talks more about how perfect Jennifer Lawrence is for the role, how the books affected him so much, the point of vi...
Gary Ross and Simon Beaufoy Working on ‘Catching Fire’ Screenplay
In a recent interview with Gary Ross, the LA Times stated that Ross had already begun work on the screenplay for ‘Catching Fire’ with Academy Award-winning screenwriter Simon Beaufoy. We had previously reported that...
Gary Ross Opens Up About His Pursuit of ‘The Hunger Games’
In an interview with the LA Times, director Gary Ross opened up about how he actively pursued the director’s chair for ‘The Hunger Games’, going so far as to make a mini version of the movie and interviewing t...
Zoe Saldana Talks ‘Hunger Games’ – “I’m a Huge Gary Ross Fan!”
Zoe Saldana talks 'The Hunger Games' with MTV at the MTV Movie Awards.
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As I know some beta of AJE are sometimes coming here, Imho the followingAI command is wrong
AI.SetAggro = $Theater_Hispania;-95;$Theater_Gallia;-95;$Theater_Italia;150;$Theater_Illyria;50;$Theater_Macedonia_Graecia;50;$Theater_Thracia;100;$Theater_Asia_Minor;750
AI.Setggro doesn’t allow negative values ( unless things have changed of course). It would rather be AI.ChgAggro.
For those interested, there are AI events files. It’s a little more developed than in PON, and should produce a not fully dumb AI. I believe my own way produces a much less scripted AI, now of course, I may be wrong. Only play will tell the truth. To have played with this sort of scripting for SVF 3 years ago, it gives some results without reaching the current state of AI in Fatal Years.Let’s hope I’m wrong!
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Read even put into words how much I love her dearly. Her kids Michele and Damien are two of my favorite people on the planet. They are my Maine Family. They’re the first people I call with good news and they have my back when times are tough. So….the bad news. Cathy has breast cancer. She is having a mastectomy. The day she found out she had cancer we all went out for food and drinks. Cathy also has an amazing sense of humor as well. She said, “I’m not going to look at it like I lost a boob, I’m just going to pretend it went on vacation.” Then she proceeded to make jokes about her boob going around the world having a great time. Then she said she wanted to write a book about her boob on vacation. And that gave me this idea. If she thinks her boob is on vacation, then it should send post cards. So I want everyone to go buy a post card from the town you live in and send it to Mama Morris. Write something witty about what her boob did while there mention you and your friends/family and sign it, Love Your Boob. Wil Whalen
Example from one of our mom-stuff moms.
Mamma Morris,
Hello, I am enjoying the sun in St George UT with two cute goofy girls,
Love,
Your Boob
Your Boob
Our wish is for her to receive a TON of these postcards so she can make a scrap book of her Boob On Vacation. You have no idea how much this will mean to her. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO THIS! It will be the best medicine ever! Also, feel free to pay it forward and get a bunch of your friends to do it as well. You have all my gratitude for this! And yes, even if you live here in Maine, still do it. Also, if you feel so inclined, copy the text of this event and email it to 10 friends.
When she receives all her post cards, I’ve going to scan them in my computer front and back and then have a hard back book made for her.
Mama Morris
36 Ferncroft Rd.
Buxton Maine 04093″
36 Ferncroft Rd.
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If you want to send me a pic of your post card I will down load them to Facebook (dianne@mom-stuff.com.) I think we can get some serious momentum going for Cathy. I love the idea of lots of us coming together for healing with laughter.
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This is an awesome idea! I'm going to definitely pass the idea around. I'm glad your friend is staying so positive... it's not easy but with friends like you she should be just fine! I'll be praying for her and will definitely be sending a postcard!
Kasey, Thanks for your comment and your support.
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Here, after 2 weeks, are the answers to your questions...
Tim Gunn, you met Tim Gunn - OMG. Sorry Dawn, I love you dearly and your blog, but Tim Gunn. Was he nice, how was he dressed?
Here's how the meeting went. A man walked in and people cheered. I said, "Who's the old guy in the suit and why are people cheering for him?"
"It's Tim Gunn!"
blank stare from me and sound of crickets in background
"It's Tim Gunn!
blank stare
"From Project Runway?!"
"Is that a TV thing?"
At this point, I got a dirty look for being clueless and was left standing alone.
Do you know how many the Ford Flex seats?
I believe it seats up to 7. Hmmm, which kid should we leave behind...
Yeah, camping is a pain in the butt! Your kids, however, will be talking about it for years! At least you are done until next summer, right?
You would think, but no, we're planning another trip this fall.
Oh, SOS, What should a large family do for a reunion when some siblings have $$$ and other siblings owe $$?
That's a tough one. You don't want to make it impossible for those, without cash to burn, to attend the reunion. Those with money may not understand why they're stuck having a camp-out reunion. In the end, I think the wise thing to do would be to claim you have no money at all and just stay home. That way, you won't have to camp, or deal with Uncle Mike's storytelling, Aunt Mimi's drinking problem, Cousin Earl's tattooed girlfriend and her parole officer, or Grandpa's Phil's gassy indigestion.
Hmmm..I am confused. You mean you have to pay a fee to register your children at State schools?
Yup. Well, not all states charge registration fees, but IL does.
So, I guess this means you're not considering homeschooling this year?
I consider homeschooling every year when it's 40 below and snowy and I have to get up early to take the kids to school.!!!
When will it end? Ummm, let's see...yesterday Joe yelled out, "Slug Bug!" and hit Austin when we passed a VW Bug, so I'd say they have at least 30 more years to go...
Just wondering, is Clay going to school this year? or does he have another year of pre-school, if he is going to school who is going to entertain Brooklyn?
Clay's going to kindergarten this year hooray! His poor teacher. As far as Brooklyn goes, I think the Little Einsteins, Phineas & Ferb, Elmo, and the Backyardigans will be entertaining her while Clay's gone.
Yes, but was the mohawk given by his brother? i have to know...
Nope, I cut Clay's hair. don't personally like mohawks which is why I'll never cut my hair like that. Clay does, however, and it's his hair so whatever. I cut it. No biggie.
Did you have a margarita? The margarita's at Cheeseburger in Paradise in Downer's Grove were FABULOUS!!!
No, but I did have coconut iced tea! Coconut! Yum! The best flavor on earth!
do you think you'll ever have another child, dawn?
Sure, I will! When chicken have teeth.
Oh, and I almost forgot to ask, did you by chance get to have any cute fireman over???
Not yet, but with Clay in the house, the chance is always there.
What no pictures of the Naked Cowboy??
I know! I guess I'll have to find time to get back to New York!
I hope you don't have an ear infection--the one I had about 3 weeks ago bled and I was MISERABLE, then the antibiotic made me barf. So, thinking good thoughts for you!
Ugh, that stinks, Stephanie! Really! My ear doesn't hurt, but I still can't hear out of it. I'm getting used to it though. It's kinda nice blocking some of the noise out. I'm kinda hoping my right ear will plug up too.
Oh My Gosh, Dawn!! You got to stay at the same place Rosie O'Donnell used to have her guests on her show stay. Did you at least get to do a little bit of quik shopping?!
Umm, I bought a bottle of water. Does that count? Really, these blogging events are usually quick in and quick out with no time for sightseeing or shopping..
I have no idea! I'll look them up..... OK, I'm back. Austin's a Scorpio, Savannah's a Gemini, Jackson's a Leo, Lexington's a Gemini, Clay's a Capricorn, and Brooklyn's an Aquarius.
I'm about to fly with my nine week old. Any advice????
Sedatives. You might want to take one too.
Hey Dawn! I was at Lake Tahoe this past weekend, I happened to stumble across a wooden plate that read "Who are these kids and why are they calling me 'Mom'?!"Do you have any wooden plates of the liking or would at the moment like one for your birthday?
LOVE it! LOL!
Chocolate or mud? [hand prints]
They were chocolate syrup hand prints because Brooklyn lives on ketchup, chocolate milk, and like 4 strands of spaghetti a week.
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I know how it is to have your ear all blocked up, although mine never lasted more than a day. I recommend getting your ears candled, the feeling afterwards is sooooo wonderful. If you're like me, however, you may have to go back a week later and have it done again to get rid of the rest of the wax. My husband and I win the contest for the waxiest ears in our family...
To the Punch Buggy Parent:
It may be too late for you since they are already in the routine of hitting each other but when my two boys (now 7&8) were little we made Slug Bug a team sport to see how many we could see in one day. Our record is 87.
And now, my oldest has started spotting Mustangs.
To parents with young kids...start early make it a team sport with points! You'll thank me in the end. :)
Hey Dawn, I can send you a pic of the Naked Cowboy. Got a few from our visit a few years back. My kids were amazed to see him on the streets.
dawn in MI
We nipped the whole "punch bug" thing in the bud when our children were young. We changed it to "hug bug". When the kiddos started getting to wild with their hugs, we started a hug yourself rule. With "hug bug" we also use a everyone gets a hug rule. The cousins used to think our kids were weird, but that's alright. Our kids have one less thing to fight about!.......................................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We just moved from AZ to CO, and I could not believe the school fees! My little one went to K in AZ last year, and I paid nothing, and bought no supplies. This year for 1st grade in CO, there were $60 worth of school fees (not a registration fee, but like $10 copying fee, $5 technology fee, $5 library fee, $10 breathing our air fee, etc), and that didn't include $5 for a school directory, $7 to join the PTA, or $25 to pre-order a yearbook, which are all optional, of course. The newcomers PTA tea this morning was optional too, and I opted not to go!
Don't even get me started on the high school fees. I think when all was said and done, I paid about $300 for my freshman to attend a public high school. $125 of that was a sports fee for softball, but still. Whatever happened to everyone guaranteed a free education? I guess at least next year, I'll know to save up for it.
Thank you for clearing up so many burning questions from so many crazy people. This was one of the best blogs I've read anywhere in a really long time.
You are a saint to answer all of these questions...it is funny the stuff that people wonder. Okay, and one more thing...Tim Gunn, he is great, you might like him if you ever get TV time
You have to try these Edy's Coconut popsicles! If you like coconut, you'll love them. Now I have to try to find coconut iced tea!
Oh, sorry, let me clarify--I'm personally not a big fan of mohawks on children, and I've always wondered what kind of parent would do that to a child. Now I know.
Psh the bunch buggy game Hubby and I still play that LMAO.
From SOS "do you think you'll ever have another child, dawn?
Sure, I will! When chicken have teeth."
Sorry Dawn, Chickens do have teeth.
First - I wouldn't have a clue who that guy was either!
Second - I am "Aunt Mimi" and we own a winery - so yeah....nephews tease me about my drinking problem. Have they been talking to you? LOL
Third - it goes from 'slug bugs' to "PT Cruiser Bruiser" and "Striker Bikers" and then TEN points/punches for "HUMMER"
Fourth - Mohawks rock. Their hair - who cares. My mom hates that attitude. She's going to FLIP when I let the 12 year old pierce his ears...
Fifth - that women telling you about chicken's teeth - I'll help you beat her up. ROFLMAO
~ Misty
I had a double ear infection and couldn't hear for over a month. I fell down a flight of stairs and broke my hand because my brain didn't know how to balance without my ears working. Ear infections are dangerous. Be careful.
Oh my gosh, your answer to what Brooklyn lives on cracked me up!
Perhaps that's because I have asked the question once about my own daughter: "Can a person live on just noodles?"
So far the answer is yes.
I have to tell you....the chocolate handprints remind me of something my oldest two did when they were little.
Hubby and I had spent an entire Saturday cleaning the townhome we lived in at the time, as his dad and step-mom were coming out to visit from MI. I scrubbed my kitchen from top to bottom, even cleaning the floors on my hands and knees. The next morning I was awakened to the sound of hubby yelling. Got up, came into the kitchen to see my boys, then almost 4 and 2(now almost 11 and 9) standing in the middle of the floor with both the chocolate AND Strawberry syrup ALLLLLLLLLLLL over the floor. The 2 yr old gave me a huge smile, then lifted the cup he had in his hands(that he'd gotten out of the sink-dirty of course) to his mouth and began drinking the syrupy concoction they'd made. My 4 yr old said "'ook mom! I can spin reeeeal good now!" and proceeded to twirl on the floor. We then set to stripping them both down and hubby bathed them while I re-cleaned the kitchen floor. Upon finishing, I ventured into the bathroom that was right off from the kitchen, only to find pink and brown little-boy handprints all over the bathroom counter, light switch and toilet lid.
It was a great start to the day...lemme tell ya lol.
A suggestion for flying with a 9 month old: buy 2 or 3 of those giant packs of earplugs and hand them out to the passengers around you.
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Ah, yes, the great presents we get from our kids when we sleep in! Some moms get breakfast in bed, but the rest of us get much more exciting things! I fell into a pit of despair though when you reminded me we're on vacation. Next week I have to get everyone up and ready for school again. Summer can just not come soon enough! Great pictures. My kids do dog stuff like that too. One decided to strip down to her "fur" and put on the dog's collar and go outside....
What a riot!!! That is so much more fun than listening to hours of whining! Enjoy the break!
that's a good one!!! it's nice to read a funny this early in the morning.
happy new year!
A ha ha ha ha ha....
How can I convince my husband to have more kids?
Very cute pictures! I think a dog would add too much chaos in your household!
Have a safe and happy new year Dawn!
so the beginning of your poast reminded me of a song I used to sing in high school 'the 12 days AFTER christmas'.
The first day after Christmas, my true love and I had a fight.
And so I chopped the pear tree down and burned it just for spite.
Then, with a single cartridge, I shot that blasted partridge,
That French hens to make some chicken soup.
The four calling birds were a big mistake,
For their language was obsence .
The five gold rings were completely fake
And they turned my fingers gree.
The sixth day after Christmas, the six laying geese wouldn't lay:
I gave the whole darn gaggle to the ASPCA.
(spoken) Well, actually I kept one of the drummers(girls)
Well, actually I kept one of the maids a-milking(boys)
And sent them back collect.
I wrote my true love, "We are through, love"
And I said in so many words,
"Furthermore your Christmas gifts were for the birds!"
(echo of "four calling birds, three french hens, two turtle doves
and a partridge in a pear tree."
But yours goes more like this
The first day after Christmas, my kids and I were still at home.
And so Then, I woke up with a gallon of milk left out. Then, with a single slice of cheese, melted on to six different plates, I remembered I love sleeping in.
or something like that....lol enjoy....
You gotta give it to them - they do use their imaginations alot! Too funny. Have a great New Year! Jenn
I'm always happy when summer is here so I don't have to get up. I still get up before the kids though. I taught them how to sleep really late. But by the time summer is over I'm ready to deal with getting them up and out just so I can have more of the day to myself.
Geez ~ I guess it IS all about me. LOL
I find it just to funny that Jax got in on this one too.
Hey at the very least lol they were playing nicely together for that moment.
I am SO loving this. Little Miss keeps insisting she's a cat (our two cats are her brothers), but thankfully she hasn't gotten out her own food and water bowls. I think I need to keep her away from yours if only to avoid the fights between dogs and cats? ;) Love it.
I was going to send the wee ones your way to teach them to sleep in, but it sounds like you're doing what I am -- trying to ignore the noise and get a little extra sleep. Luckily I haven't found any food out. Of course I've not managed to spend more than 10 minutes in bed after they wake up, since they're so happy to see me at home that they come in and snuggle in bed with me. Ohhh the horrors ;)
btw - any word on the new publisher? I was thinking about you and that the other night and have completely forgotten to ask you.
Oh my gosh, my kids like to be dogs too! They have even taken it a step further and set up doggie school in the living room. They practice jumping through hula hoops and crawling under the coffee table. They've even gotten me into the game by scratching my legs until I give them a cookie.
OMG! LOL!!!! My kids do the same exact thing!! That is funny. Thanks for the smile!
My sister was a dog for years. She is now over 40 with 3 little ones of her own. Thanks for bringing back memories.
Well, at least you know that their imagination is well developed. :-)
I am impressed by the cleanliness of your kitchen floor and LOOK at the ribs on that kiddo...he needs more kibble!! :)
My four older kids LOVE to play like they are dogs. This post made me laugh 'till my sides were splitting. My kids thought I was going off my rocker. The cheerio kibble was the funniest thing I have read in a long while.
That's is too funny! Your kids are very creative and imaginative!!
Hey Dawn! I'm starting up a mom blog too! Will you check it out and tell me what you think? You're like my idol!
My kids do this all the time. One is a cat, the other a dog.
LOL! I think you just described a typical morning in the Spaz household!
I agree, though, better to sleep in and clean up mess later. We mom's need as much sleep as we can get.
I had bowls like that once!! Happy New Year!
Ew, who lapped up the water that you stepped in?
I don't allow barking in my house. It's enough having to hear it from the neighbors' dogs. I don't want to hear it from my children! My daughter is WAY too good at sounding like a high-pitched, yappy little dog.
Happy New Year, Dawn and family!
Glenda
My lot are usually Guinea Pigs... AND they make that horrible Guinea Pig noise all day!
At least they don't shed like real dogs!! Hahah.?
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Happy New Year and I hope 2010 begins good for you. You deserve it, and I'd love to meet for lunch if you're up for it after school starts up! xoxo
what cute pictures....love your blog..can it really be 2010....So glad I found your blog and look forward to many reads in 2010..Happy New Year..
Next time, turn off the lights and replace the Cheerios with Kibble and Bits.
Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now keep it up!
Love it :)
The messes aren't funny, but the pictures of them pretending to be dogs are! Hope you were able to find a way to get some rest while they were on break.
Hmm, I am beginning to wonder if two was enough...
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I’m happy to tell everyone about a site that I’ve just recently become familiar with - Mom Central. If you haven’t done it yet, I would like to encourage you to check out their site. They’ve got information and articles on everything from relationship advice to vacation tips to great giveaways. Personally, I can never have too many resources available to me.
I don’t know about the rest of you Canadian moms, but I’m always frustrated when I find great online offers and then discover that they’re “Valid only in the U.S.” BAH!!! The best news about Mom Central for me is that they’ve come to Canada. YAY!
Right now they’re looking for Canadian moms to join the Mom Central Testing Panel. This is a great opportunity for us moms to give our opinions on various products. I don’t know about any of you, but I’ve got more than enough opinions to share.
heh.
Even better is that by signing up during the month of June, you’ll be entered to win one of five Canon Cameras. Free stuff makes me so happy…
So spread the word to all those Canadian moms that you know! Register for the Canadian Mom Central Testing Panel for a chance to win cool stuff AND have your opinions heard. It’s win-win, wouldn’t you say?
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Thanks, I’ll check them out.
Thanks for the link to their panel – I just signed up! I agree – too often us Canadian gals are excluded, so I’m more than happy to jump on board.
O Canada! International blogging is quite something, eh?
Cool that you found that site.
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This is my girls and I in front of the White House.
We sat on the Capital lawn for the fireworks. This was our view; so gorgeous.
The girls in front of part of the FDR Memorial. It was 105 and horrible humidity. We were ready to come home.
The last morning at the hotel. Very tired, very hot and ready to leave.
My girls in front of the United States Marine Corps Memorial--Iwo Jima. Very impressive memorial.
The girls at the Lincoln Memorial.
This is me giving a dinosaur a drink at King's Dominion Theme Park.
This is only six of the almost 400 pictures I took. We had a lot of fun, but we are glad to be home. I will resume posting reviews later this week! Hope you all have a great week!
You and your two daughters looks great! I am sure you really enjoyed the vacation. I am glad you posted some photos you took. I am looking forward to your next posts.
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40 monarchs sighted in a 9 hour butterfly count July 19 and despite the fact that 75% of Iowa's landscape is covered with herbicide treated BT corn and herbicide treated soybeans.
Subject: [IOWA-INSECTS] Iowa City Butterfly Count
Date: Tues, 21 Jul 2009 20:58:15 -0500
From: Chris Edwards <credwards@AOL.COM>
To: IOWA-INSECTS@LIST.UIOWA.EDU
We held our local Iowa City Butterfly Count on Sunday July 19, visiting Kent Park, Macbride Nature-Recreation Area, and Lake Macbride State Park. In 9 hours we tallied 25 species and 379 individuals. This is well below the 11-year average of 33 species and 800 individuals, probably due to the cool,
cloudy weather. We had a great turnout of 13 enthusiastic counters, including an amazing 6-year-old who ran around chasing and identifying butterflies all day, and who found two species that we might have otherwise missed!
Black Swallowtail 4
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1
Cabbage White 51
Clouded Sulphur 19
Orange Sulphur 31
Bronze Copper 1
Banded Hairstreak 2 (new count species)
Eastern Tailed-Blue 3
'Summer' Spring Azure 79
Great Spangled Fritillary 25
Pearl Crescent 22 (record high count)
Question Mark 1
Mourning Cloak 2
Painted Lady 2
Red Admiral 1
Common Buckeye 1
Viceroy 15
Common Wood-Nymph 38
Monarch 40
Silver-spotted Skipper 15
Least Skipper 3
Peck's Skipper 1
Little Glassywing 1 (new count species)
Byssus Skipper 19
Black Dash 2
Chris Edwards, Solon, IA
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Mortgage application denied?!? Those three little words can invoke panic and anger. Why didn’t I meet the lender’s requirements? This question may pop into your head, but in the wake of tighter lending requirements, many applicants are finding themselves on the wrong side of the fence. To get through the process with ease, understand factors that can get your mortgage application denied.
1. Can’t Back up Income
You may earn enough monthly to pay your mortgage and other bills, but if you can’t document this income, expect to have your mortgage application denied. Mortgage approvals are harder for self-employed people who don’t receive a paycheck from an employer. Keep accurate financial records and document all your income. Be prepared to provide the lender with tax returns from the past two years.
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The Mayo Clinic started the Center for Social Media in July 2010, unofficially becoming the global." The book not only encourages members of the health care community to join social media, but also presents arguments for social media's importance in the rapidly evolving world of modern medicine.
Mayo Clinic also uses Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and even Second Life to connect with patients. Strict regulations limit the detail in which Mayo Clinic can answer patient questions, but scheduled Twitter chats offer a way to provide general medical advice, as does Mayo Clinic's weekly radio program. Mayo Clinic's YouTube channel, with videos ranging from information on sports injuries to surgery prep suggestions, has more than 8.3 million views.
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In its 16th year, Fortune's ranking of the best workplaces in corporate America welcomes five list debutantes, and what's more, 78 of them are looking to fill nearly 67,000 jobs.
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U.S. News evaluated 123 Aggressive Allocation Funds. Our list highlights the top-rated funds for long-term investors based on the ratings of leading fund industry researchers.
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The fund has returned 9.48 percent over the past year, 7.28 percent over the past three years, 4.68 percent over the past five years, and 8.03 percent over the past decade.
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InvestEd Growth Portfolio has an expense ratio of 0.25 percent.
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DWS EAFE Equity Index Fund has an expense ratio of 0.54 percent.
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Welcome to our Adventurist Webpage, to see our official team page, head over to
We are team of young antipodean thrusters who have an unhealthy fascination with all things related to tweed, tea and adventure (essentially we aspire to be more British than the Indians).
We are competing in the Mongol Rally 2012, a motor-vehicle rally organised by a group of eccentric young Britons who call themselves “The Adventurists” [].
The premise of this rally is to drive a highly unsuitable car, in the name of charity, from London, UK, to Ulan Bator, Mongolia (approximately 10,000 Miles, dependant on the particular route taken). And by “highly unsuitable car”, we mean something with an engine capacity of less of than 1.2 Litres (think Nissan Micra or Toyota Yaris).
Our Charity of Choice is Legacy [] and we are aiming to raise at least $15’000AUD.
Follow our exploits here, as we cram four rather large chaps, in a highly unsuitable car and ferry ourselves from London to Ulaanbaatar and if you would like to donate, please do here:
Well some bad luck, all the Russian and Eastern European Maps were stolen with Erics bag in Stockholm...time to replan the route! Good News is the Tweed Suit survived the ordeal!
Approaching 3K in fundraising for Legacy, if you haven't donated yet, the time is now!
First of the 4 Tweed suits purchased!
Tack sa mycket Bjorn och Gunilla! and thanks to Nick and Fi (though you could have dedicated to Eric!)
Maps of Russia and the stans purchased, however it would appear that Eric being able to quote "The Hunt for the Red October" verbatim and some other members of the team having long histories with Russian Working Girls does not directly translate into them being able to read a map in russian
Cheers Topper for the donation and taking us over the $2K mark!
Off to London this weekend to buy some maps of the former Soviet Union....make sure you donate to Legacy in my absence!
Cheers Eamon for the generous donation!
Thanks Kate (Findette) for the donation(s)!
Thanks for Supporting such a Great Cause!
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Hugo Villeneuve <harpagon_(_at_)_jwales_(_dot_)_EINTR_(_dot_)_net> wrote: > > Updated my i386 machine to -current today including the packages. > > Was less than happy about the move from stunnel 3.22 to 4.04. > > 3.22 was totaly configured via command line options and now 4.04 > is only configurable via a file. Since I was using it has a > stdin/stdout client to connect to a variable host, I have now to > create stunnel config file on the fly (which is less efficient than > using *argv[]). > > Anyway this is not OpenBSD problem execpt it would have been nice > if both version would have been in the ports for a while. cd /usr/ports/*/stunnel && cvs -qz3 up -rOPENBSD_3_2 && make package # Han --
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Posted: Jul 10, 2012 8:42 AM by CBS News
While word trickled out last week that Mitt Romney was set to announce a $100 million fundraising month in June, official word came out Monday: he and the RNC actually raised $106.1 million in June for his election.
The Obama campaign, in turn, announced they and the Democratic Party pulled in $71 million, the second month in a row they were outraised by their Republican rival.
"It was our best month of this election so far," Obama campaign Chief Operating Officer Ann Marie Habershaw wrote in an email to donors.
"But we still got beat -- and not by a little bit," she continued.
Romney campaign spokesperson Andrea Saul said in a statement Monday, "This month's fundraising is a statement from voters that they want a change of direction in Washington."
"In the months to come, these resources will be crucial to highlighting the difference between President Obama's broken promises and Mitt Romney's plan to get America on the right track again," Saul said.
The Romney campaign says it and its joint RNC committee had at least $160 million in the bank as of June 30. The Obama campaign didn't say how much they and the joint DNC committee have on hand, however, at the end of May, they had $147 million.
For months, the Obama campaign has said they'd be outspent by Romney and the Republicans, pointing specifically to "super PACs", which can raise unlimited amounts of money independent of the campaigns. Republican-leaning "super PACs" have raised millions more than Democratic-backed "super PACs" this cycle.
"If we lose this election, it will be because we didn't close the gap enough when we had the chance," Obama campaign COO Habershaw's email added.
Romney held at least one fundraiser on at least 18 out of the 30 days in June. This does not include the three-day retreat with major donors in Utah because according to campaign officials, that was not an actual fundraiser. We do not know the exact number of fundraisers he held because the campaign does not always alert the press when he's holding a fundraiser.
The locations of his fundraisers were spread out: California, Oregon, Washington State, Texas, Missouri, Utah, Georgia, Tennessee, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Arizona, Virginia, New York, New Jersey and Washington, D.C.
In comparison, Mr. Obama attended 33 fundraisers in June, the most of any month since filing for re-election in April 2011.
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When faced with adversity my method of coping is mobilization. What can I do to regain a sense of control? This week we are all left to ponder this question. How can we channel our heartache and anger into action? Is it because Newtown is so close to home that we are compelled to act? I don’t think so – the country is engaged in discussion like never before.
There are many questions, and many facets to consider. But two areas scream for attention: how our society deals with mental illness and guns.
Mental Illness:
We face a mental health crisis in this country. Budgets are cut, and with the loss of funding go vital services. There is a disparity between the way insurance companies view general healthcare and behavioral health services; this allows payers to limit services for those seeking help for a mental illness. They impose limits on how much providers can be reimbursed too, so in in this part of the country most therapists don’t accept any insurance. People who have a mental illness are stigmatized, and this deters many from accessing services. Parents who seek help for their troubled children are chastised if medication is part of the treatment.
There are no easy answers. Let’s talk, listen and learn from each other. We need to take a close look at how our society deals with people who have a disease of the brain – a chemical imbalance. It will take work, but we can change the culture, and improve the care of those experiencing a mental illness.
Leadership from the National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI) Connecticut is going “on the road” to talk with residents throughout the state. This is an opportunity for community members to learn about what is happening in Connecticut to address the needs of those with mental illness, and to get involved on a grass roots level. Local NAMI chapters will host the meetings; a schedule can be found on NAMI CT’s calendar. Some dates are already scheduled (below), and more will be:
- Fairfield NAMI: January 2, 2013, 7:30-9:00 pm. This meeting’s agenda includes a discussion of NAMI’s legislative priorities for 2013. More about the meeting is here.
- Stamford/Greenwich NAMI: January 16, 2013. More info here.
- NAMI Southeast (Norwich): February 6, 2013. More info here.
- NAMI Windsor Locks (East Windsor): February 10, 2013. More info here.
Guns:
Let’s consider the facts. The Swiss-based Small Arms Survey found that in 2007 the United States had the highest gun ownership rate in the world: 88 guns per 100 people, or 270 million altogether.[i] When countries experiencing high murder rates by drug cartels (Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia and Brazil) were excluded, the survey reported that the US has the highest rate of homicide by guns. Firearms killed 31,347 people in 2009 – that is 17.7% of all injury deaths that year.[ii]
Gun control helps. The states with high gun ownership and weak gun laws experienced the most gun deaths.[iii] No matter how “gun enthusiasts” may spin it, the numbers speak for themselves: tougher gun laws save lives.
What justification is there for civilians to own military style weapons and high capacity magazines? What rational person would deny the importance of background checks and gun registration? When Congress resumes session in January, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California) intends to introduce a bill to renew the ban on assault weapons. These are common sense measures.
The gun lobby is powerful. Suggestions to arm teachers and implement high-tech security features in our schools and public areas are based on the premise that the current state of gun ownership and (lack of) regulation is acceptable. No longer can our society acquiesce to gun violence perpetrated against the innocent. This is our call to be part of the solution. The nation is ready – now is the time for action.
Contact government officials:
Let your elected leaders know what you think. Connecticut Against Gun Violence,, is leading the charge on gun control in the state. They are working with Connecticut legislators and on January 9th a Bill will be introduced to enhance gun safety. Click on the “Legislative Action Center” on the right side of their home page, under Take Action. Once you enter your home address this link will connect you to your local, state and federal representatives in government. Since Senator-elect Chris Murphy hasn’t taken office yet, he is not included. He can be reached here, at his Congressional office. After he takes his senatorial seat that link will close and he will be listed on the CAGV’s Legislative Action Center too.
Other organizations that are actively pursuing gun control:
- The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence,
- Mayors Against Illegal Guns,
- Coalition to Stop Gun Violence,
- Violence Policy Center,
Several on-line petitions are circulating:
- Immediately address the issue of gun control through the introduction of legislation in Congress. We the People: sign the petition
- Gun Control. Now. Sign On (an arm of Move On): sign the petition
- Increase the availability of mental health services now! Change.org: sign the petition
- Zichronam Lirracha: For their memory shall be a blessing. Jewish Council for Public Affairs: sign the petition
[i] The Guardian, Gun homicides and gun ownership listed by country. US edition. Accessed 12/18/12,.
[ii] National Vital Statistics Reports, Vol. 60, No. 3, December 29, 2011. Accessed 12/18/12,.
[iii] Violence Policy Center. States with Higher Gun Ownership and Weak Gun Laws Lead Nation in Gun Deaths, Washington, DC: Violence Policy Center, October 24, 2011. Accessed 12/18
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Reserva Natural La Cordillera, comprised of Icacos, Diablo, Palomino, and Palominitos, is a protected string of small sandy islands just north and east of Fajardo [1] with lots of great snorkeling and diving spots around them. Bring plenty of water and sunscreen—there are no facilities or stores on the islands.
To get to Reserva Natural La Cordillera, go to the dock in Las Croabas and arrange a ride with one of the boat operators there. They’ll drop you off and return later to pick you up. The cost is typically $10 each way. The islands can get crowded on weekends and holidays.
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Last week I found out that my quilt would be featured on the cover of McCall's Quilting!!!
It's the large star made from a jelly roll of Kate Spain's Flurry. I just love it!
They named it Snow-Kissed Star which is more perfect than anything I could have come up with!
Here's the link to their blog:
and here's the link to more information about the pattern on their website:
The pattern takes half of a jelly roll. That means I have half a jelly roll in my sewing room. To celebrate, I have decided to give it away!
If you want the jelly roll, leave a comment telling me what your favorite Christmas color combination is for a quilt. Do you like traditional red and green, bright red and green, do you like adding the winter blue, magenta and forest green? I think I will do the drawing on Monday. Monday sounds like a good day to have a prize drawing.
**The drawing is now closed.**
Happy Quilting!
81 comments:
Congratulations. It is gorgeous
I like red and green with a little gold thrown in for Christmas quilts. But lately I have been drawn to the dark side. Since I have been using Countdown to Christmas by Moda, I have come to love a little touch of black added in to the mix.
Wow - congrats - that is really cool!
I really like the Christmas brights.
Congratulations on becoming a Cover Girl quilt designer! Thanks so much for the generous offer. I hope I win! My favorite color is red.
Shirley
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Congrats on being a COVER GIRL! For Christmas I prefer the brighter reds and greens with some minty blue thrown in for good measure.
That is beautiful.
Congratulations, cover girl! I like Red, Green, White with a little Black as an accent. It really makes it pop.
Just got this magazine in the mail. Love bright reds and greens! I love this pattern, can't wait to make it, but I have a few UFOs to finish first. :)
Thanks for the chance to win!
congrats! it is a beautiful quilt.
I love reds/golds for Christmas. last year I tossed some brown into the mix and loved it.
So winter looking! I love it! I tend towards the richer deep reds, golds, greens and blues for Christmas sewing, but I love looking at all the modern bright cheerful fun prints that are out there now. So if I win this half jelly roll, I would be able to make your star pattern! How exciting! I'll have to be on the lookout for it.
MGM
The last few years, my favorite colors have been blue & green. In past years, it's been blue & white & silver. So I switch back & forth. Thanks for the giveaway.
Congratulations on the magazine cover! I have it and was impressed with the quilt. I am thinking I am gonna change up the usual Christmas colors and go with aqua and red with some cream and black for balance. I tried it a little last year and was pleasantly surprised but I used a Christmas style pattern with what looked like peppermint kisses and I think that is what helped it say Christmas..
My favorite colours this year are blue White and silver!! But traditional is always good
Red and Green is it unless it involves a cut snowman and then the blues
Congratulations, I'll be looking for it! Beautiful quilt.
CONGRATS TO YOU!
YOUR TABLE TOPPER IS BEAUTIFUL!
I USUALLY LIKE JUST THE RED/GREEN TRADITIONAL COLORS,BUT YOURS IS SO DARLING THAT I THINK I WANT TO ADD AQUA TOO!YOU ARE SPECIAL TO GIVE IT AWAY! THANK YOU♥
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Congratulations, your quilt is really an original. I love blue, white, and silver but deep reds and greens feel so homey and warm.
I might have to break my no-buy budget to pick up the magazine - I just love that! It's stunning and Kate's fabrics just top it off.
I love rich emerald green with burgundy red and a little blue thrown in!
I love the traditional colors best - red, green, gold. But I absolutely adore Kate Spain fabric. Loved her 12 days of Christmas line - which had a non-traditional color. would love to work with some somthing outside my comfort zone.
Congratulations! I love your quilt! I like the traditional red and green
Congrats! Being on front of a McCalls Quilt cover is an awesome accomplishment. Be prepared for all the new followers!
I like cute prints like Flury or something like that in jelly roll Christmas quilts. I'm not that great in putting colors together myself just yet, but I'm gettin gthere. Thanks for the giveaway!
For Christmas colors, I like a variety of reds, greens, winter blues, and creams. Not bright reds and greens, but more medium tones. Love your quilt!
Congratulations Konda!
Whilst my Christmas decorating started out in traditional colours of red, greeen and gold, they have branched out to include blue, silver, hot pink (yikes) and lime green (even more yikes). But it kinda works, from a distance!
How exciting. Love the pattern and the fabric. I would love to win.
Congratulations and thanks for the giveaway chance! I love Kate Spain's Christmas lines with the aqua thrown in with the red and green!
It depends which room I'm decorating, but like most of the color combinations you mentioned. If I were lucky enough to win the half jelly roll, I'd make a matching quilt to yours!
I love the red and green but I feel a need to toss in some blue too and maybe some tan.
I love, love winter blue(s) with a bit of silver and green and definitely some dark red.
I love red and green but in a print that can be played off as an everyday quilt that reminds you of Christmas. Congratulations on the cover! It is beautiful. :)
My favourite Christmas Combo is of course the red and green with gold also tossed into the mix! Congratulations...your quilt is gorgeous!!
Paulette
Red and white. Love the star quilt.
Green and gold. I like the idea of throwing in a bit of black for spice.
I guess I am a traditionalist as I really like red and green with white for Christmas. I have added a lot of blue into the mix but mostly I like the traditional colors. I would love to get your jelly roll: I would make your quilt for us.
Congrats! I love the festive look to this quilt. I am definitely going to pick up this issue.
It looks like such a fun quilt! Certainly draws attention because it is not "normal"! I prefer darker greens and reds:-)
I'd have to say that the traditional red and green are still my favourites, but I am liking a lot of the new Christmas fabric lines that are coming out this year.
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Thanks for this fun giveaway.
Congrats! Very pretty quilt! I love reds, greens, silvers, blues, non traditional tones. Thanks for the chance to win!
I like white blue and silver.
That is a beautiful guilt.
I like Kate Spain's last 2 Christmas lines. I like to add that light blue and change up some of the patterns. So, you could actually keep the quilt out past Christmas if you wanted to.
I love Christmas brights. Congrats on the mag cover.
I like a muted red and green, with a little yellow thrown in. Kathie L in Allentown
I love it all. Bring it on.
Congratulations on the magazine cover!! Good work & the star is beautiful!
I'm a traditional green & red although I have been venturing out into the blues/whites/silver colours.
Gorgeous quilt! I love traditional colors for Christmas - brick reds, forest greens, with splashes of white and gold.
I am so traditional...gotta love the red and green. But this latest trend to use lighter greens, blues and pinks really has me excited! I love your strip star..love it.
Very exciting!! Congratulations:)
WOW! Cover girl is cool! Congratulations to you. How fun that must be to see the magazine with your quilt on the front. :)
I am a total Christmas freak and love to decorate many trees in different colors and themes. I don't really have a favorite colorway but I do know that this year I will be adding more of the blues and reds together.
Thank you for the chance, and your quilt is exquisite! :)
reds with greens unless...it is a snow scene and then I love the blues
Beautiful quilt and Congrats on the publication!
I am into traditional holiday colors although I always think I'm going to change it up but never do! lol Can't go wrong with the classics, right :)
First, I love that quilt! It is gorgeous!
I love to splash a little bright pink in with my bright Christmas greens and reds.
If I am doing more jewel tones, Silver, Burgundy and Forest green.
That quilt is beautiful! :) I like red/gold or blue/silver/white combos-the blue combo probably because we very rarely get snow down in my part of Texas!
Congratulations -- what an honor to be on the cover of McCall's. For our first Christmas in our new home last year, I switched to an Aqua color theme, and I just love the way it looked! Can't wait to get those decorations out this year!
I subscribe to McCall's and love, love your pattern. (I had already marked it with a post-it note). Please pick me, because I would love to totally copy cat your pattern!
I love red and green, but I could also go for a light blue and white! :)
Although I like the blue snowmen and frosted blue christmas ornaments, I'm such a traditionalist that it really doesn't feel christmasy to me unless it has the red and green. You quilt is darling. I would love those colors. Thanks.
I am traditional with deep red and green. LOVELY quilt!
Congratulations! A gorgeous quilt!
I love red and green - but not metallic fabrics!
Congratulations on your magazine cover! It's a fabulous quilt. I love burgundy, cream and dark green for the holidays right now.
I like using reds and greens
Congrats on the cover-the quilt looks wonderful.
First of all, congratulations on the magazine cover! What a thrill it must be for you!! :)
I think that I really like the traditional red and green, with some black/white/silver thrown in.
Thanks for the giveaway!!
Congratulations. I love the fabric you used. cant wait to receive my maz.
I got the magazine yesterday and immediately LOVED this quilt...Congratulations...! ps...I'd love the other half of the jelly roll!
Bev/Mo
Congratulations, Konda! It's beautiful! Can't wait to get my issue!!
I am a tradional red and green girl. I have tried other combos but always go back to this.
I love Christmas decorations. My fav is red and green but like all combinations of Christmas colors.
bgk44 @msn.com
AWESOME!!! That is a beautiful quilt. Makes me want to go buy a jelly-roll! :o) CONGRATS!
Love your quilt..Great colors and I am looking forward to making one also..and awaiting the drawing as I haven't picked up that jelly roll yet!
Congratulations on the cover, just got it today!!! Have been poring over it. Love the quilt and is going on my to do list...but not for this year. I love more of the muted and jewel tone reds and greens but always mange to throw a little surprise in, sometimes gold, sometimes black. Keeps it interesting!
Congratulations on being a Cover Girl! It's a beautiful quilt. I love the Flurry line of fabric, too.
Congratulations! That's a beautiful Christmas quilt. I like traditional Christmas red and green, but that blue in your quilt is something I'm going to have to try.
I like some blue added into the traditional Christmas colors. Thanks for the giveaway....I have the magazine here just waiting for that half jelly roll.
Love the quilt, what a wonderful way to make a big star! Every year for Christmas I decorate the tree differently. Usually it has blue and silver, because I love snowmen and snowflakes, and most of those ornaments are blue and/or silver.
WOW!!! So cool to be in a magazine!
I'm more a traditional girl when it comes to Christmas colors.. True red and green. That being said, I sure do love pretty much all the Christmas lines this year.
I just got my copy in the mail and within the hour purchased the fabric and linked to your blog on my Google Reader! What a wonderful pattern - congrats on being a cover girl and I'm so happy to have found your blog :)
Congrats on being a cover girl - your quilt is gorgeous !!
Congratulations, I love the Reds, Greens, Whites and Blues for Christmas.
How exciting! It is beautiful. I like any combo of red and green for Christmas.
Congratulations! I like traditional red and green, and white. Thanks for the giveaway!
I like nontraditional colors, like white, turquoise, red, gold, silver, anything with pizzazz!
Oh, I have that magazine and have been admiring your star all weekend. Great job. If I am not too late I would love to be entered in the give away. My fav Christmas combo is the traditional Christmas red and green with a touch of gold.
Am I to late to enter. Such a beautiful quilt. Heading out to get the magazine now.
Thanks
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Empty Bowl Zendo
973-796-6299
Empty Bowl Zendo facilitates community support in the practice of zen meditation. The group's emphasis is on zazen, or "sitting meditation, a practice that focuses on the present moment in an attempt to live without judgments and preconceptions."
Empty Bowl Zendo meets regularly on Tuesday evenings on the second floor of the Church of the Redeemer. Special sitting events are held throughout the month, including the more rigorous Day of Silence, held from 7:25am to 1pm the second Saturday of every month.
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Flats and Handwashing Challenge and I'm definitely feeling the flat love. Only one leak yesterday, but I was really pushing the diapers to the limit so I think that was pretty awesome. I was even able to use one small, thin, Child of Mine flat all by itself with no leaks with a kite fold (though it was SOAKED under the cover). Very impressive.
I am also loving the camp washer. Makes things very easy and looks like it works very well. I say "looks like" because I only did half of a wash cycle last night. I filled the bucket with cold water and agitated them a bit for a pre-rinse, then filled the bucket with hot water and detergent and agitated some more. Then I got distracted and left them in the hot soapy water overnight. I'm thinking that won't hurt and may help, and I'm up to rinse and hang them before the kids get up. I was wiping and reusing my covers yesterday so I only ended up needing three all day. I also had plenty of diapers left over, so I'll be fine today while waiting for the rest of the stuff to dry.
I had planned on just participating in the flats challenge with my diapered baby, but it occurred to me that it would kind of be cheating to then go and put a pull up on my four year old at bedtime. So back to Walmart I went. They didn't have any Child of Mine covers in a 5T so I went with the flannel and fleece from the craft department. I didn't get home until bedtime so I just tied the flannel and fleece on Violet all crazy like and I'll cut some real flats and covers today.
Speaking of homemade fabulousness, today we have a special treat with guest blogger Monica Weller. Without further ado, take it away Monica!
I'm so excited to share with you about making homemade laundry detergent. I have been making my own laundry detergent for well over a year now and I use it exclusively. I'm especially thankful to have homemade laundry detergent for my cloth diapers.
We have a large family and I try to save money any chance I get. I wasn't sure if making laundry detergent would work for us or not but I figured I didn't have much to lose if it didn't work and if it did work doing this could potentially save our family some considerable dollars.
Well it worked and I am not going back. We have a septic system so I make liquid detergent but you can make a powder version if you prefer. This is the recipe I use:
1/3 bar of Fels Naptha
1/2 C Arm & Hammer Washing Soda (not Baking Soda)
1/2 C Borax
1/2 to 1 ounce of essential oil, if desired
2 Gallon size bucket
Grate the bar of Fels Naptha soap into a pan. Add 6 cups water. Heat until the soap melts. Add the washing soda and borax and stir until dissolved making sure all the grated bar soap has melted. Pour into bucket. Add 4 cups very hot water. Stir. Add 1 gallon plus 6 cups hot water. Stir again. Let the soap sit overnight. It will form into a watery gel. Ready to use after about 24 hours.
Use 1/2 cup per load. You can use 1/4 cup for high efficiency washers. This soap has minimal suds but that is okay. The suds is an additive in commercial detergents.
This is wonderful if you have allergies.
This is also very cost effective.
Fels Naptha: $1.09 for 5 1/2 oz. bar
Borax: $4.26 for 76 oz.
Washing Soda: $2.57 for 55 oz.
So for $7.92 you can get all the ingredients. I checked Tide HE at Sam's Club and they sell it for $19.98 for 170 oz. bottle. The savings is at minimum is 1/20 the cost. So what are you waiting for?
This is the only detergent I use for my cloth diapers. I use the rinse only cycle (cold water) and then I add the detergent and wash my diapers on the sanitize cycle (hot water) and they come out great every time.
Good Luck!
Thanks Monica! I am very excited to try this out myself. I am trying out SO many new things with this challenge, and every one of them has been great so far, I'm sure your detergent will be too.
Because I LOVE Monica's recipes. Mostly the edible ones, but I can only imagine this one will be fantastic in a less delicious way.
Monica has also published a cookbook full of great recipes (the edible kind lol) called, simply enough, "Homemade Cookbook". She's planning on starting a recipe blog soon but if you're feeling hungry before then, you can email me at bogflower at gmail dot com and I'll give you all the info about ordering a cookbook of your own. They are $13 and chock full of family-friendly recipes.
So, after a great day of flat diapering, where does that leave us?
Total $$ Spent: $115.02 with tax (yet ANOTHER Walmart trip to get fleece and flannel for preschool overnight diapers)
Total Time Spent: 2:52 (added another Walmart trip, 6 changes, some time spent figuring out how to make a quick bedtime diaper, and half a "wash cycle")
Total Diapers Changed: 6
Total Leaks: 1
See you tomorrow!
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Over this past weekend, we got the chance to take a spot on the Rockstar/Metal Mulisha tour bus and tag along for three stops of the 2009 Rockstar Mayhem Festival—Phoenix, Albuquerque, and Denver. At each stop, the Mulisha riders put on three jump demos while heavy metal bands played on two outdoor stages. Then when the sun went down, the crowd funneled into an amphitheater to watch Slayer and Marilyn Mansion on the main stage. There’s a lot that goes into putting a tour like this on than people might think and it was truly a crazy experience getting to be a part of it for three stops. If you’re interested in checking it out, go to to get more info on the rest of the tour dates and locations. Here are some photos from the trip, but be sure to check out an upcoming issue of TransWorld Motocross for a full feature.
TAGS: Derek Garland, fluffer, heavy metal, marilyn mansion, motocross, mx, nikki danielson, rockstar mayhem festival, Ryan Hagy, slayer
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After defeating the Tampa Bay Rays 5-3 this afternoon to finish their 10-game road trip with a 5-5 record – not too shabby considering the quality of the competition – which combined with a loss from the White Sox leaves Detroit only 3 games behind once again. Combine that 5-5 road trip with the previous 4 consecutive interleague series and the Tigers are 13-9 over their last 22 games. This hasn’t been due to a surge in offense (though a little of that is due to the 9 games in which Tigers pitchers had to flail wildly at the ball. I hate National League baseball) – over those 22 games the Tigers have averaged a little less than 4.5 runs per game and a .740 OPS. Not awful but really not a plus. The Tigers have found some success through pitching – with a team ERA of 3.38 over that stretch. If only the team hadn’t allowed 15 unearned runs over those 22, we’d really be getting somewhere.
June 12, 2012; Minneapolis, MN, USA: Minnesota Twins left fielder Josh Willingham (16), center fielder Denard Span (2), and right fielder Ben Revere (11) celebrate after beating the Philadelphia Phillies at Target Field. The Twins won 11-7. Mandatory Credit: Jesse Johnson-US PRESSWIRE
Now the Tigers head home for 7 games before the All-Star Break. That’s 7 games against AL Central dregs Minnesota and Kansas City. If ever there was a time to hope for a 7-game streak, it would be now. If we lower our expectations just a hair, if the Tigers can win 4 of the 7 they will be a .500 team going into the break – not ideal but certainly not out of things.
Is it fair to call this stretch “critical”? In a sense all games are critical and in another sense games against other divisional contenders are doubly critical (since we not only want to win we want those specific teams to lose). The Twins and Royals – though really anything is possible – are unlikely to be the AL Central champion this year even should the Tigers be unable to climb back to the top of the heap. These games are critical only in the sense that the Tigers can’t reasonably hope to make the playoffs by beating teams like Boston and Tampa Bay but throwing games to awful teams like the Seattle Mariners (against whom the Tigers are 1-5 this season). The timing is also important – leading up to the All-Star break and the most intensive trading season prior to the non-waiver deadline at the end of the month. Whether the Tigers ought to buy or sell could be determined this week – or left an open question.
You’d like to say that the Tigers should have a pretty good chance to take both series and finish the season’s ‘first half’ not just at but over .500. That might not be true. For one thing – home field advantage around the league this year seems to have flat out disappeared. Look at the teams around the AL with better records on the road: Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Kansas City, Minnesota. For another thing – as our Tigers commentators have been pointing out several times per game in anticipation of the Royals series – Kansas City is well over .500 since their terrible April start and barely behind the Tigers in the Central. Minnesota, on the other hand, started losing and has continued losing. A couple of their key guys in Liriano and Mauer have started producing, but there is so little overall talent on that roster at this point that it hasn’t mattered much. Unfortunately, the several Twins players who are likely to be dealt during the month of July will probably still be around to face Detroit over the next 4 days.
SO… TWINS coming to town means time for Tigers bats to continue their recent liveliness. The Twins have a 4.92 ERA and the lowest pitcher WAR of any team in baseball. The poor Twins are also the only team to strike out fewer than 6 batters per game so far this season. The Twins have also struggled to hit on the road this year with an MLB-worst .636 road OPS. Add in that the Tigers will miss Francisco Liriano while the Twins miss Drew Smyly and personally I will be unsatisfied with less than a 3-1 series win – while hoping for the sacred 4-game sweep. The ROYALS coming to town is more of a reason for concern and or consternation. In addition to having winning months in May and June, the Royals have a 3.73 road ERA on the season and have scored more runs on the road than they have allowed. The same cannot be said for the Tigers at home.
Topics: Detroit Tigers, Kansas City Royals, Minnesota Twins
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The CBR is said to be a heavy bike. I always knew that the CBR weighs at 167 kgs- what I didn’t know was that RE bikes weigh nearly the same. But riding wise I never found it heavy, it flicks with great poise in traffic and occasionally even with pillion I go flat out on my commute and to admit frankly I never found my ZMA so effortless as this one. In fact the P220 being lighter in comparison, I find it heavy to negotiate in traffic while crawling and at speeds. I have ridden much lighter bikes- but then I don’t get that stability confidence in case I happen to ride them like the CBR. So is it justified that the CBR is being spotlighted as an elephant and this very point being one of the factors that people add it to its negativity?
Premature conclusions on performance is the next thing. Haven’t ridden the KTM so can’t comment on the ride feel and the acceleration characteristics…though I can vouch that the KTM would give you more thrills than the CBR. In fact it’s obvious one might even end up under the impression that the KTM is much faster than it actually is. The CBR on the other hand would be happy to do all the drudge like a non-complaining housewife without much fuss…the same characteristic which many people loved in the ZMA while choosing it over the P220 despite being lesser on power specs. On the contrary just to add- post 6000 rpm, the CBR does go into a completely different element.
Continuing on similar lines…we have the handling factor. Now without second thoughts the bike that immediately and deservedly springs up is the R15. No arguing on the fact that it’s a great handler- but so much so talks go around that the CBR automatically is highlighted as a bad handling bike- which I feel it is not. I find it way way ahead of the neutral handling of the ZMA which is considered to be a good road-mannered motorcycle. Yes the suspension is soft and the front does dive on hard braking- but then it is what it should be like considering that 99% of the biking population ride their bikes on roads and not on track. If both bikes still had to be taken on track- no guessings who’d be coming out with faster laptimes. Well the CBR has more power would be an obvious comment…but then the P220 with its brute power still trails the R15 on laptimes…its not only about power, isn’t it? If I had to swap the CBR with an R15 for my daily use- within a week I will be coming back crying over a stiff body, I will say the same for the N250R as well. Practicality prevailing on the handling factor- won’t a CBR be a better proposition? Poking in with the KTM here which has a lovely soft suspension- in fact the rear is softer than the CBR at the softest settings- how it performs- time will tell. And finally coming back to the cornering ability here- I really wish to ask the level of skill of a rider who would be cribbing about the ‘not-so-great’ handling of the CBR. At what level of speed will a CBR falter i.e. the bike would lose its line during cornering, the front tyre losing traction or the rear fishtailing. I feel the line of error between the CBR and the R15 will be so much high up the graph that it will need an extremely talented and professional rider to actually push both bikes to a level where the handling limitation would come to light. I found the CBR a completely different animal on cornering when compared to my ZMA- initially I always had apprehensions cornering on the CBR, the first reason being not to crash a new bike and second the cornering technique on the ZMA doesn’t completely apply to this one. It was a very similar case when I rode the R15 for the first time- I was like why the heck is this bike not turning? More of body inputs and the bike reacts to where you want it to go. I had suspicions on the Contigo which were dismissed when Sheel mentioned that they are as grippy as the ones on the R15…its all in the mind isn’t it? Well coming back to the handling since that I have now started to get the hang of the CBR, I would admit that I have started loving taking corners on it without second and creepy thoughts. In the end I wish to question, a motorcycle excelling on a track would excel in real world conditions? If one has to pick a motorcycle for all round use and had to pick between say an R6 or an FZ6, or a CBR600RR or a 600 Hornet- what would be your choice?
And the issue that bought the CBR into a brighter limelight than the bike itself….QUALITY! Am not sure how deep to go into finding the quality issues. Starting off with the paint- I would rather ask myself as to what a bad quality paint job is. The only two bikes that made me go ga-ga over the paint has been the N250R and the N650R- simply outstanding finish, no other bike can really match them- but I do mind shelling out one bike’s cost for added quality. I can’t really compare the paintjob of the R15 and the CBR here for the fact that the red on the R15 is more maroonish and the one of the CBR that I have is metallic red. I would be grateful if someone could really highlight as to what a bad paint job really means.
Another is the point of criticism….ugly welding joints. Well here are a couple of pics of welding joints of different bikes. The rest are from high res pics sourced from the net except for the CBR.
My CBR- looks real bad?
The R15: Deltaframe joint looks good, look at the pillion frame weld.
The N250R…that’s a smooth finish?
The KTM200….again is that a smooth weld joint? Look at the chassis surface finishing.
Rusting:
My bike was gathering dust for a month at the godown- thanks to Bank of India who made me run around for one and a half month and finally asking me to go to a branch near my residence to avail the loan. When I got the bike, there was not a micron of rust on the bolts, chain or anywhere.
I was always impressed with the dashboard plastic quality of the R15 with lovely texture and great fitting….I find the CBR no different.
The engine coating on my bike is still as it was when compared to Parimal's first batch CBR (8000+ kms) which had peeling issues right after a few days. Honda was ready to replace the entire block just coz of the peeling from a few places- but he asked them to coat the block instead of replacing as he didn’t want to get into running in again. Though all the bolts were replaced including a new set of grab-rails.
Will end on the note with the words I started with…it’s not a post on defending a motorcycle just coz I have bought. It’s an extremely versatile and it feels a “built-to-go-well-everywhere-motorcycle” the moment you start riding it. And somehow it’s quite bad to see people going too much with criticism on quality and handling comparisons- which I have doubts about at present considering the new batch of bikes. Maybe Honda gave a specially made motorcycle to me. I might be light years away from a rider of a high order- but my riding experience (lotsa commuting and touring as well), I would say the CBR is a great recipe for real world conditions with a gem of an engine that pulls and pulls and pulls…..good stopping power and it excels at whatever you throw at it. Not forgetting to add the lovely EFI that is miserly to the core which during my commuting gives me fantastic mileage figures (35 to 40 kpl). The only grouse I had with my CBR was the quality of the brake pedal and the gear shifter….but then not enough to be a deal breaker to go ahead with.
I genuinely feel that the quality issues were taken care by Honda (one example cited of Parimal) and the new bikes are much much better (mine is one). So as for the bombardment of criticisms, I would say it’s time to look up and beyond and to what the CBR actually is.
Everyone has a right to disagree though.
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Iconoclast is a near classic; it has some interesting cruxes that are mostly well protected while maintaining fairly easy climbing on a spectacular wall. Most of the climb shares pitches with Hyperspace while exiting the Iconoclast corner/dihedral system to the right for the Shield (Hyperspace continues up for two more pitches). The exposure on the Shield is wild as you roam around slinging chicken heads and a few sparce bolts. The start of Iconoclast begins after climbing the first two pitches of Remorse (typical and described below) or RPM. Remorse: Begin directly below the roofs that form the underside of Two Tree Ledge (you will be standing on the trail just to the left of the small scrub trees that are at the high point of the base of the wall). P1- 45m+ - 5.6 - Climb easy 4th class ledges and corners to a 4th class ledge system that angles up to the left. The ledge system ends 20' below a small bush in front of a large flake that typicallly has many slings around it. Climb the right groove up and traverse left to the bush/flake. P2- 25m+ - 5.8 - The next pitch traverses left all the way to the Psychopath ledge; start with some groove and face climbing up left aiming for the undercling flake; work your way back down the flake and traverse until you are forced into a balancy no hands traverse to more cracks; continue left along a rounded ledge (that works better for hands than feet) and finish with a mini crux up to the Psychopath ledge. Belay either at solid cracks and tree prior to the ledge proper, or continue across the gravelly ledge to the tree on the far side. These can be climbed as one pitch with a 70m rope, or some very easy simulclimbing for 20+ feet (for the second) until the lead can gain the Psychopath ledge and set a belay. Iconoclast: Many people will climb the Pyschopath crack as a variation from here. P3- 35m - 5.8+ - Around the Corner: Traverse out left (one bolt) and around the corner on some easy but exposed face climbing until you reach a crack; continue up the crack until ledges and cracks above the Pyschopath crack. P4- 50m - 5.10a - The Roof Pitch: Follow the cracks/corner up to a excellent hand crack corner roof (a short fun move over); continue up alongside the block of doom; a solid belay is possible at the top of the block of doom (in cracks to the left of the block). Be wary of the block doom as it is HUGE and seems to be detached and ready to release. The rockfall appears to be from 2008 P5- 45m - 5.10c - The Dihedral Pitch: Pull a second roof directly from the belay and follow up and over into a corner ledge that leads to the dihedral. An interesting (short) traverse down puts you under a dirty looking dihedral (it climbs clean), work up through secure but pumpy moves of the dihedral (good pro) (alternatively the right side face of the dihedral goes at 5.11a); continue up easier terrain to a two bolt belay. P6- 50m - 5.10c - Transition to the Shield: Follow the corner up to the tree (or work a crimp/ledge ladder out left that leads back into the corner tree); head right climbing the face up around the corner (one bolt and sparse/small pro); don't forget to look over/around the corner for the chicken head saviors; finish up the face of the Shield through easy chicken head terrain (two bolts spaced wildly apart and maybe a slung chicken head) to a two bolt belay at a tree. P7- 25m - 5.7 - The Mini Dihedral: Follow a short but beautiful little left-facing dihedral with a 2" crack in the back of it that leads directly to the left most end of Library Ledge; two bolt belay. Most parties will follow the last two pitches (68 meters) of Outerspace from hear. P8- 55m - 5.10b A0 - Continue up the 5.10b slab climbing (sparse? bolts) from the left side of Library Ledge to a bolt ladder. (I have not climbed this pitch so beta is second hand)
Approach Snow Creek Wall via the Snow Lakes Trail. Stay on the trail for ~1.5 miles, until you just enter the trees (parallel to the wall). A trail down through the woods leads to a log crossing on Snow Creek, and up to the wall at the base of P1. A windstorm from the winter of 2010/2011 obliterated the trail proper for a few hundred feet on either side of the creek, follow the path of least resistance (look for rock cairns and cut branches through/on the maze of logs) The walkoff from the top is to the left or you can rappel the route with two ropes.
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The Psychopath variation is really fun, not particularly hard, but the crux is techy and tricky. I would recommend continuing past the block of doom about 25' to the base of the dihedral on P4 if you've got a 70m. The belay will be more comfortable with better pro and the belayer will be able to see their climber. I would also link P6 & P7 together, take a #2 & #3 C4 to protect the mini dihedral. We didn't find the two widely spaced bolts on the face before the belay at the tree, but there were a couple of nut and cam placements to supplement the bolts, and the climbing was super easy after turning the corner onto the sheild.
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I agree that enforcing the return time will lessen the waits on both the fastpass line and the standby line at the end of the day, or at other high peak times.
One thing that hasnt been mentioned is the flip side to this. Since the amount of fastpasses per day per attraction remains the same -if people do come back at the window instead of later, the stand-by and the fastpass lines during the day must get a little longer.
The extra waiting time wont be as bad as late in the day since these extra in the time window people are spread over a longer time frame
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When we were there, they were just enforcing the start time window
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We were in WDW 9-25 thru 10/2 and they were only enforcing start times on the fastpasses. We did use them later in the day and nothing was said.
I want to say right off the bat, that I have not read every post in this thread, but I agree with them wanting to enforce the return time. I believe it will be a more efficient way to keep the lines moving faster. However, I disagree with some posts that want a grace period. As the saying goes, if you give an inch, they will take a mile. If Disney allows 1 hr or whatever after the printed time, if the family returns 5 minutes after that 1 hour grace period, they will cause a stink about that. I wouldn't be opposed to a 2 hour formal return time, instead of the one hour time.
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I made sure to be there in the time frame stated...I believe in not abusing something ...I am shocked people did this later in the night..hhmm
Kathy
When I was there this past May, we were in the studio room of the Rocking Roller Coaster ride and the CM came in and just threw a ton of fastpasses all over the floor. She responded with "Oops, I dropped something. Oh well, I guess you guys benefit from my clumsiness". I picked up a couple and they were Fastpasses from earlier that day. There was easily 100 or so scatter all over the place. No one knew what to do until someon said that you could use them anytime in the day. Then people started picking all the tickets around them.
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Accounting for issues of disability which is different everyone has the same opportunity to run around 'willy nilly' for fast passes. I think it's kind of a choice really. Planning for best exploitation of fast pass is the same as any other park touring strategy. The better you plan, the more you can exploit it. Remember fast passes you get for super headliners around early lunch often have quite a late return time. We often do this, go back for a swim then come back to the same park later and use fast passes within their correct window. It's all in the planning and how much back tracking you are prepared to do to exploit the (legitimate) use of fast pass to the max. Me and my DH take it in turns to be the fast pass runner.
If no-one out there understands, start your own revolution and cut out the middle man (Billy Bragg)
If your within the window then of course its totally cool. I just mean if you grabbed one at 9:30 AM and the window was 10:30-11:30, but you didnt use it until the peak time of the day at say 3 in the afternoon, thats budding into the 'line' IMO and goes against the spirit of the system and against the spirit of Disney World in general.
I think return times should have been enforced from the start, I've seen people get their fast passes and imediately enter the attraction well before they're even supposed to initially return, Disney does need to crack down on the issue, I myself always return the minute I am allowed I never wait till the last 10 minutes or so if I did that I'd forget about it and I already have a collection of unused fast passes at home, back to the topic, it would cut wait times in half I'm in California and our space mountain fast pass line as of late has been almost as long as the stand by wait line and I bet its full of abusers
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Got back from the World a week and a bit ago, and all our FPs were being checked carefully for times before we were allowed on any rides. I don't know whether we would have been able to use them later than the stated times, we didn't try. Apart from one time when Big Thunder Mountain broke down and we were told to come back later; when we did, the CM looked carefully at our FPs and then back at us, until we explained that they were from the time it had broken down (a couple of hours earlier); then they let us through okay.
Silvercat
I am leaving in a few hours and wanted make sure I got this correct.Show up between 330 and 430 as my FP says and I am safe! If I go past 430 which I never have I will be turned away?
Kathy
If they are enforcing the return time, which they apparently tested and may or may not have abandoned. It's obviously safest to return during the return time but the fact that a crackdown/test made the news does indicate it's not the normal procedure.
If convenient, you could chat up a fastpass CM and casually ask how strictly the fastpass return time is being enforced on the day you are there. Since we don't know when they may choose to enforce return times that would likely be the safest course of action, aside from simply returning during the appropriate window.
During MouseAdventure in the Studios on November 12th, it was recommended that we "get fastpasses for Star Tours" and I don't think anyone was turned away for coming late (when we'd figured out what we needed to look for). I know we were HOURS later than our return time.
Cathy
I'm at WDW right now and today my wife and I used Buzz Lightyear FPs about 2 hours after the return window had ended. The CM didn't comment or anything.
Arnold
A few days ago when I was still there, they only checked the date and start time of the FP window. This has been the same experience I have had each year. I don't think they enforce the end time on the FP because sometimes rides can go down, etc., so I'd bet it's a policy that they only need to check the date and window start time for the FP's.
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We just returned. We used several fast passes after their window was over.... mostly because we had the luck of getting fast passes every single time smack dab in the middle of an ADR. These were for ones like Toy Story that we *had* to get first thing or not get one at all. No one ever questioned us when we returned to use them.
I do have to say the parks were MUCH more crowded than the "predictions" seemed to suggest so fast passes were really necessary.
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Change four years now. Our new apartment is our first place that has just about all we ever wanted in a home minus the option to have a pet. It is also the first time we have felt that we can start a home together.
Our first place together was the apartment I lived in during my college years which was perfect for me and my room-mate, but when he moved out and Emily moved in, it was an awkward transition and we never really felt like that was our home. We then moved out to the country where the air was clear and free of the city noise. It was a nice place with cheap rent, but it was also just a move of convenience.
We had just both graduated and Emily was blessed with a teaching job at Kings Valley Charter School, a small country school with about a hundred students. Our new place was only ten minutes away from her work. As I struggled to find a full time job, subbing as much as possible, I ended up staying home a lot. It was nice to be able to have the time to myself and to be able to think about what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, but a person can only do that for so long. And neither of us we able to really feel at home because of the conditions of our new place…smelly water, no storage, no closets, no dishwasher (I love dishwashers), no mailing address of our own, and being twenty minutes from the nearest grocery store wasn’t exactly convenient. We did, however, enjoy being close to some good friends of ours who also work at the charter school.
Well, I finally landed a job as a high school Humanities teacher at…you guessed it…the same school Emily works at. KVCS added 9th grade this year with plans to add a grade each consecutive year. This year has been more than I could ever hope for. It is a joy to come to work everyday and be a part of my students’ lives. This job is probably the most demanding job I can think of, but I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else or doing anything but this.
So, we can finally afford a nice, new place in the city. A place we can finally create a living space that we can enjoy to its fullest and be the hosts that we’ve always wanted to be. We love having friends over and we can’t wait to enjoy that company.
Moving forward, change, hope, growth…all these things are good. But the truth is they mean nothing if you don’t share it with somebody. We may face challenges in this life, but we are never alone. When you work with somebody you can accomplish anything, go wherever you want to go and do whatever you want to do. It just takes a little work, some patience and a positive attitude.
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As people age and want to stay in their homes it is important to have a health care plan that will work to enable them to stay safe and as healthy as possible. Home health care enables the person to have the comforts of their home combined with the healthcare ordered by their doctor. Skilled nursing makes the plan work. Certainly, certified nursing assistants are important, and enable the home health care process to work, but the requirements of skilled nursing are essential. Medications must be administered correctly, health assessments need to be done, and medical procedures often need to be administered at home. With skilled nursing staff, dressings are changed, wounds are looked after and attention can be provided for specialized problems and concerns.
There are many reasons to use MR Homecare skilled nursing services. The natural progression of aging often brings on declining health, but other reasons can prevail as well. Often an accident can require a long period of recuperation. Skilled nursing care can enable the healing process to be take place at home. Home health care professional can change dressings, administer therapy, take vitals and do health assessments. This much needed information is passed on to doctors who can keep up with the patient’s health through the skilled nursing care services.
Often a disease can be debilitating but not immediately a threat to life. Years of dealing with a disease can cause a lot of stress on the patient and a family. Having the opportunity to be in a familiar setting is a something that can take a lot of pressure off a family as the patient deals with the disease. Simple things such as a personal bedroom to rest in, private bathroom and the opportunity to move about in familiar surroundings are all made possible with skilled nursing assistance. A person can enjoy independence and recuperate at the same time.
The services MR Homecare provides enable a doctor to carefully monitor patient’s condition and care program. Having viatl signs and assessments transmitted by nurses can enable a quick diagnosis to be made without the inconvenience of going to a doctor’s office. This is a strong convenience to patients and family.
When skilled nursing assistance is offered as an option, most people will quickly take advantage of the opportunity. Being able to be as comfortable as possible during an illness or accident can give a great psychological boost and better health.
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Do you have any of the following concerns for your child?
If so, please click on that question best states what is concerning you.
Is your child very hyper? Does your child run around as if he/she is "driven by a motor"?
Does your child have difficulty concentrating or paying attention?
Does your child cry a lot? Is your child sad most of the time?
Does your child frequently withdraw from others and prefer to spend time alone?
Is your child frequently irritable?
Are you concerned that issues within your family may be causing your child to be distressed?
Does your child seem nervous or worried more often than other children his/her age?
Does your child frequently "act up"? Does your child often refuse to do what you ask, or purposely do things you have asked your child not to do, just to annoy you?
Does your child often get into trouble at school?
Does your child have frequent tantrums?
Is your child often aggressive towards others?
Does your child purposefully set fires?
Has your child ever been arrested?
Has your child ever run away from home or left school without your permission?
Does your child have trouble with schoolwork?
Does your child have trouble sleeping (falling asleep, staying asleep, waking in the morning)?
Does your child have difficulty with language, speaking to others and/or understanding what others are saying?
Does your child act very differently from other children his or her age?
Has your child had difficulty meeting his/her developmental milestones on time?
Do you suspect that your child has a problem with alcohol and/or drugs?
Does your child frequently have times when part of the body moves repeatedly, quickly, suddenly and uncontrollably (for example, eye blinking, facial grimacing, head jerks, shoulder shrugs)?
Do you suspect that your child has been touched inappropriately, physically or in a sexual way?
Do you feel your child has been affected by often seeing adults argue and/or fight with one another?
Does your child say he/she hears, sees or smells things that aren't there?
Are you concerned about your child's nutrition or eating habits?
Are you concerned because your child is very underweight?
Your child's mental and emotional health is as important as their physical health.
Click on the above links if they concern you about your child.
Click here for a list of Central Mississippi Mental Health Professionals
For information about available mental health resources outside of Central Mississippi, please contact your local MAP (Making A Plan) team.
Disclaimers | Return to MSAAP Home Page
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M&F names manager, officer
by MBJ Staff Published: February 19,2012
Tags: M&F Bank, MetroCast Communications, Mississippi Delta Community College, Mississippi State University, Rotary Club, Starkville Young Professionals, Tamika Liddell
M&F Bank has named Tamika Liddell manager of the Madison Branch. A native of Belzoni, Liddell received her associate’s degree from Mississippi Delta Community College in 1998 and is currently pursuing her bachelor’s degree in business management. She has been an associate of M&F Bank since 2003 and has over 14 years of financial experience. [...] [...]
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A primary key or index cannot have more than <Maximum> columns. (Visual Database Tools)
SQL Server 2005
Microsoft® SQL Server™ does not allow more than 16 columns in an index. Because a primary key has an associated index, there can be no more than 16 columns in a primary key.
For more information, see Creating Indexes (Database Engine).
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background-origin property
Specifies the positioning area of an element or multiple elements.
Syntax
background-origin: padding-box | border-box | content-box
Property values
A variable of type String that specifies or receives the position of the box or boxes.
padding-box
Initial value. The position is relative to the padding box. For single boxes, "0 0" is the upper-left corner of the padding edge; "100% 100%" is the lower-right corner.
border-box
The position is relative to the border box.
content-box
The position is relative to the content box.
CSS information
Standards information
- CSS Backgrounds and Borders Module Level 3, Section 3.8 an image element is "fixed", then the background-origin property has no effect. In this case, the background positioning area is the initial containing block..
See also
- style
- CSSStyleDeclaration
- currentStyle
- defaults
- LayoutRect
- runtimeStyle
- style
- Reference
- background-color
- background-image
- background-repeat
- background-attachment
- background-position
- background-clip
- background-size
- background
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Build date: 11/29/2012
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Period 1 (Journalism) wins the award for best inquiries. There are a few people who are asking important people amazing questions. Made my day.
Period 2 wins for best sonnets. Super impressive. Made my day.
Period 3 wins for best discussions and best questions. Made my day.
Period 5 wins for making me laugh with borderline inappropriate sonnets and Sweat Jar Avenue.
Period 6 wins for best cafe-like atmosphere with finger snap applauses and love-infused poems.
Today was one of the best all-around days I’ve had in a while.
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Another division win puts Fox in elite company
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) long list of Denver's achievements to be met with almost no fanfare inside the locker room.
''You do this to win championships,'' Fox said.
He's talking about Super Bowls, not divisions, and his team, with a 9-3 record, a seven-game winning streak and Peyton Manning playing some of the best football of his career, is shaping up to be as legitimate a contender as anyone.
The Broncos play at Oakland on Thursday. Currently, they are the fourth seed in the AFC, with a game against Baltimore set for Dec. 16. Denver has a significantly easier schedule than two of the teams ahead of it, Baltimore and New England, so the No. 2 seed and the first-round bye that goes with it are both within reach.
Don't bother asking Fox or any of his players too much about that sort of big-picture stuff, however.
''The most important thing right now is to keep on stacking days, keep on stacking weeks, keep taking it one day at a time,'' linebacker Von Miller said. ''I feel like hear what you say. I only hear what you do.
Setting that tone is Fox, the coach, who has the backing and guidance of quarterback-turned-executive John Elway, then had Manning fall into his lap. Some say that makes his job easier. Some say it makes it harder because of the pressure to win - and win now - that goes with being surrounded by those people, those names.
Fox's hiring was viewed skeptically in large portions of Denver. Yes, he was a veteran coach with a winning record (He's now 96-86) and one Super Bowl appearance, but he was coming off a 2-14 record in his final season at Carolina.
Hidden beneath that terrible record was the fact that his players played hard for him all year and that Fox, a lame duck coach with a depleted roster, kept smiling and stayed positive through the entire thing.
When Elway was looking for a coach in Denver, the Broncos were coming off a 4-12 season that included the midseason firing of Josh McDaniels and the awkward presence of McDaniels' first-round draft pick, Tim Tebow, who didn't get into the starting lineup until after the coach was gone.
''When I looked at this building when I first got here after the 2010 season, everyone was demoralized,'' Elway said in a recent interview. ''The one thing that stuck with me with John was the positive attitude. Outgoing. Friendly. Positive. To me, that was the No. 1 characteristic. It was the simple fact of the way he was. I felt he could get this organization rehabilitated, get everyone excited about playing football again.''
And, Elway said, there was Fox's ''knack for football,'' honed over 34 years in the business, first as a graduate assistant in college, then through five stops in the NFL, starting as secondary coach in Pittsburgh in 1989, before he got the head job in Carolina in 2002.
Never did that knack work better than during the 2011 season, his first with the Broncos.
Unfazed by the prospect of building a system around a player, rather than making the player adjust to the system, Fox and offensive coordinator Mike McCoy set aside their egos and, many might say, set back offense by about 50 years by bringing the read option back to the NFL to give.
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Get a sneak preview at the new Australis tabs (Windows only)
18 June, 2012 § 87 Comments
Wanna play with a sneak peek of the new Australis tabs for Firefox? I’ve put together a build of it that you can download and run with.
This isn’t checked in yet, but it should be coming along soon. I only implemented it for Windows, so my apologies go out to those on OS X or Linux.
Let me know what you think in the comments
I really like the use of extreme focus on the current tab relative to background tabs, I often can’t quickly spot which tab I am currently on in Firefox.
I’m not very fond of the curvy curves though, I like the boxyness of the current tabs, it makes it feel very digitial rather than artificially trying to impersonate real surfaces.
[...] Wein, sviluppatore di Mozilla ha rilasciato (ma solo per Windows) una build di Firefox 16 equipaggiata con Australis che dovrebbe garantire maggior freschezza visiva al browser della volpe. [...]
I briefly studied bezier curves for a programming course and something looks ‘unnatural’ at the inflection points. Blend where curves join horizontal base looks abbreviated. Text closeness to top makes square tab icons and close icon nearly touch edge. Tabs seem tall. Inactive tab top fade looks good. When active tab is first or last, Inactive tab vertical separators may be causing an illusion where active tab curves appears asymetric left to right. Overall, looks promising.
Do you have an idea when this will be implemented in the official 16a1?
Unfortunately I don’t have a good idea of when. You should ask @frankyan as he might have a better idea than I do.
What about UX build ?
when could we have an other update ?
I’m runnig UX but not implemented yet…
Hopefully soon, it is just based on when I have time. I really want it on the UX branch also
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Krissy PonyBoy
Paper Crush #5 $3.00 ‹ back
Paper Crush #5 $3.00 ‹ back
The Summer Sweetheart Issue is all about teen idol obsession. It focuses on her own short-lived teen obsession with Parker Stevenson, from the equally short-lived Hardy Boys TV show, but covers a lot of teen idol ground in a short amount of time. 16 pages, half-letter size, color covers.
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