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Hordaland (Bergen, Askøy, Leirvik, Knarrevik/Straume, Osøyro)
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Neptun Hotel
Even if you don't plan on spending much time in your hotel room, it is important to us that you enjoy the time you do spend there. The Neptun Hotel has 124 rooms, 21 of which are suites. The rooms vary greatly in terms of shape and furnishings, but they are nearly all large and spacious with sumptuous bathtubs. One little curiosity is that all the rooms at the Neptun Hotel have names, so perhaps next time you stay with us you would like to stay at "Fløyen"? The Neptun Hotel offers a wide range of hotel rooms, ranging from artists' suites, superior and family rooms to standard single and double rooms. Common to all categories of rooms is our wish for each room to have an individual character, and to be spacious and contain all the amenities that our guests expects to find in a full-service hotel. We also offer free wireless broadband in all our
Apartments for rent in the very heart of Bergen. Apartments is located just next to one of the main squares in the centre of Bergen. 2 minutes walk to Bergens most visited attractions as Bryggen, the Fish Market and Fløibanen. Apartments is fully equipped for 4 persons. Apartments suitable for up to 4 persons. Twin beds in sleeping room and a double sleeper sofa in living room. Kitchen is fully equipped incl. dish washer. Tiles in bathroom, Washing machine and Tumble Dryer. Free internet access, DVD player. Cable TV.
Sandviken Brygge Hotel
Reasonable rooms in charming Sandviken! Sandviken Brygge Hotel is set on a greenery-filled hillside by the wharf in charming Sandviken. The property is located 20 minutes scenic walk from the heart of Bergen, where you can find attractions, restaurants and shopping. The hotel is run by Best Western Hotell Hordaheimen who has been catering for satisfied guests since 1918. We try hard in both our hotels to create a relaxed and informal atmosphere. The hotel has 10 parkingplaces. Our hotel rooms: Sandviken Brygge Hotel has 45 comfortable rooms with wooden or carpet fittings. The rooms have an intimate feel combined with a fresh, modern style. There is wireless internet connection in all the rooms and in the common areas. The rooms are suitable for both business and leisure travellers, with all the facilities. The restaurant Dreyers: Our breakfast is served in the restaurant Dreyers next to the reception area on the ground floor. In the afternoons and evenings Dreyers are open for dining, it also serves as a relaxing and cosy bar for the hotel guests. Dreyers specialities are seafood, tapas and a la carte. Fully licenced. Fabulous nature right on your doorstep: The unique location makes it possible for our guests to have a swim in the fjord or to hike in the mountains. The famous Stolzekleiven with its 800 steps is a challenge well spent, when you reach the top with its panoramic view. In walking distance you can also find Gamle Bergen Museum. The attraction is worth a visit. You get the architectural history of Bergen with the small wooden houses from the 16th up to the 18th century. The small village shows how people lived and worked in Bergen during these
Bergen Travel Hotel
Our rates prices are reasonable, and we are located in the heart of Bergen within easy strolling distance ofto all the town's attractions, shopping, restaurants etc. Cosy pub and breakfast room, also and courtyard tablesserving. Public parking just outside. Spacious rooms, 1 - 4 beds. All rooms en-suiteen suite, with parquet flooring, TV and telephone. # General facilities * allergy room, * elevator, * pub, * family room, * wireless Internet, * TV, * dogs allowed, * clothes iron, * family friendly, * modernized during the last 5 years, * Internet, * smoking allowed, * distance from parking place (200 m), * Travel time to aiport in minuts (30), * bar and * Distance from the airport in km. (18) # Capacity * number of beds (115) and * number of bedrooms (65) # Season * all year round # Credit cards * American Express, * Diners Club, * Eurocard, * Visa, * MasterCard and * BankAxept # Licensed premises * fully licensed # Other accommodation * flats and * apartments # Kitchen and household * kitchen available (some
Skuteviken Guesthouse
Skuteviken Guesthouse is located in a totally renovated wooden house. The modern and charming apartments have a living room, kitchenette, bedroom and bathroom. Skuteviken Guesthouse also offers a wireless internet connection for guests. General facilities * open all year, * Internet, * no smoking and * bed
Grand Terminus Hotel
The hotel has 131 rooms of various sizes and price range. Most rooms have been renovated in the original style. This is why we can offer unique accommodation in delicate rooms where history is present in every little detail. It's difficult not to be influenced by the historical atmosphere in Grand Terminus!
Bergen Ymca Hostel
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Are you looking for budget accomodation in the city center of Bergen? When you choose to stay ay Bergen Ymca Hostel, you get much more than just a cheap bed and breakfast. Bergen Ymca Hostel is a hostel located in the middle of Bergen city center, right by the famous fish markets, the Tourist Information Centre and a few minutes to the beautiful old town of Bryggen. We offer a range of reasonably priced, quality accommodation for all budgets, from our ensuite family rooms with their own kitchenette to our spacious budget dorms. We have accommodation to suit you, whether you are a youth, senior or any one in between! * General facilities o terrace, o WiFi, o TV, o buffet breakfast (NOK 60), o Internet café, o recreation room and o bed linen (Included) * Capacity o number of beds (165) * Season o all year round * Kitchen and household o kitchen
Victoria Hotell
We have in total 43 guestrooms with a total of 83 beds. The rooms have a exquisite, delicate and pleasant interior that guarantee a nice stay. Our main product is a good night's sleep. Your room offers you a comfortable bed, you control the heating yourself, and blinds guarantee you a dark night regardless of the season. Sleep well and awake refreshed to a new day of activities in Bergen or the surrounding district. Perhaps you will be inspired to discover what Bergen and the surrounding fjords can offer by the décor in the hotel's main staircase All the rooms have made up beds with towels. The rooms are equipped with TV (10 channels), internet access, refrigerator, adequate workplace, closet and private bathroom. Daily cleaning is not included apart from longer stay that has cleaning once a week. Reception service is open the whole week between 9am and 11pm. The rooms are ready for check in from 3 pm. It might be ready earlier, ask upon arrival. Check in after closing hours can be done with advanced appointment. The hotel stay must be prepaid, and payment is due upon arrival. Breakfast is not included in the room price and it is not common kitchen facilities. Breakfast can be bought from our partners, and / or you can use the many offers that are around in Bergen. Contact he reception in the opening hours.
Marken Guesthouse
Marken Gjestehus is centrally located and reasonably priced guesthouse, for travellers who want to spend their money on other things than sleeping! With its location in the city centre, its an excellent base to explore and enjoy a beautiful and historical city, packed with cultural events, shopping and other leisure activities. The accomodation is run according to the "hostel-principle", and we offers rooms/beds in rooms from 1 to 8 persons. The rooms are bright, modern and furnished with lockable closets, desk, chirs and mirror. You will also find a pleasant common sitting-room, kitchen (with free coffee and tea all day) ,TV-Lounge, and toilets/showers with good standard in the corridor for those rooms that do not have private bathroom. Bank, post office, stores and restaurants are within walking distance. Our guests range from business-people to families and backpackers. A variety of people who share the wish to stay in a decent place at a moderate price. Together with our staff they all create the special homelike and cosy atmosphere which is characteristic of Marken Gjestehus - a modern hostel!
Clarion Hotel Bergen Airport
At Clarion Hotel Bergen Airport, you literally land in your hotel room, in the restaurant or in the conference hall! The hotel is built right next to Bergen Airport, Flesland, just a few minutes' walk away. As such, it is the first authentic airport hotel in Norway. A stay with us is the best way to start or finish a visit to Bergen. We have something to offer everyone. If you are searching for relaxation, we recommend that you drop by our spa division on the top floor –as close to heaven as you can get We are the one music hotel in Bergen, which means that you will experience various music throughout the hotel. When you start to feel hungry, we suggest that you head for our restaurant, which serves delicious international cuisine made from the finest ingredients. # General facilities * allergy room, * parking, * elevator, * minibar, * sauna, * fitness room, * wireless Internet, * clothes iron, * safe, * Spa, * coach/truck parking, * telephone, * Jacuzzi, * distance from parking place (0), * Travel time to aiport in minuts (0), * bar and * Distance from the airport in km. (0) # Capacity * number of beds (400) and * number of bedrooms (200) # Conference facilities * number of meeting rooms (16), * maximum number of conference participants (650), * maximum banquet seating (800), * function rooms (6), * number of persons in largest conference room (650), * number of attendees (650), * meeting/exhibition room, * number of attendees (650) and * banquet (Maks 500pers) # Disabled persons * adapted for
Harbour Apartments
Harbour Apartments is the city's latest attraction for all who want holiday accommodation in the heart of Bergen. The flats are ideally located in Sandviken, just a short walk from the city centre, with Bryggen, the Fish Market, the Fløibanen funicular railway and the Aquarium. Frequent bus service just outside the door. 24 flats from 35 m2 to 100 m2 of high standard, all with fully equipped kitchens, TV, luxury bathrooms, broadband (for a fee) and lifts to all floors. Many of the flats enjoy panorama views of the Byfjorden, and guests can enjoy the privacy of the private quay for fishing, sunbathing or swimming.
P-Hotels Bergen
Many people are curious to know what the P signifies: Place - P-Hotels should be located close to vibrant business and commercial life and in the city centre with its pubs and restaurants. Price - Fixed low price NOK 795/895 for the price-conscious customer. Pay for what you use. The price is always predictable, regardless of whether it is business travel or a holiday. Product - A hotel for Internet users and people who prefer efficiency and high quality. Modern, innovative and easily accessible on its own terms. Our own breakfast concept, read more about further advantages under products. Personal service - Our staff are available 24 hours a day. The customers safety and comfort is our primary focus. Promotion - An innovative hotel with a focus on web-based technology. Here, you may book your room online via the Internet or SMS and check in at our express check-in desk. Procedure - The operation has procedures that can be followed and referred to for all situations. P-Hotels main services: Good household og maintainance. Technology. Host/hostess available 24 hours. A good bed. Nice start on a new day starts at the bathroom. Breakfast.
InCity Hotel & Apartments
Welcome to Incity Hotel. Incity Hotel and Apartments is situated in the heart of Bergen. You'll find us in the cultural main street of town with theatres and concert venues right outside your door. Our apartments are of high standard, modern and fashionable. Our rooms are fully equipped and include everything you need to make your stay as comfortable as possible. You can choose between Studio, 1 or 2 bedroom apartments. You'll find something to suit all needs for business travellers, couples, families and so
Hotel Augustin
HOTEL FACILITIES General facilities Wine bar and brasserie Lobby with bar and free coffee/tea 24 h Free waffles from 16:00 to 19.00 Free wireless internet access Free use of papers, magazines, books and computer with internet Mini fitness with treadmill, spinning bike, weights, and a TV Service room with washer/dryer/iron Lecture rooms Dining rooms Audiovisual equipment Safe - reception Small library 24 h reception Complimentary breakfast Free newspapers - reception Lift Internet access (free) in public areas Internet access - wireless Coffee bar Pets considered Conference room Meeting room (small groups) Umbrella Parking (additional fee) Dry cleaner Restaurant(s) at the hotel Restaurant with breakfast Shoe shine TV in lobby Currency exchange Laundry services Check In at 15.00 Check out at 12.00 Room facilities Pay-TV Trouser press Handheld shower Hair dryer Internet access - wireless Cable/satellite TV Mini bar Private bath Iron and ironing board (on request) Telephone Wake up calls Window opens Activities Shopping nearby Restaurants, clubs and theatres nearby Attractions such as the Aquarium, Fish Market, Fløibanen Funicular and Bryggen historic harbourside nearby Aerobic nearby Boat rides nearby Fishing nearby Golfing nearby Harbour nearby Bike rental nearby Hiking/biking paths nearby The guest rooms have the following amenities: Wifi web access all rooms, bath tub/wc and some with shower/wc, writing desk, chair(s), telephone with direct inward calling system, text color tv with radio, cabel-tv og pay tv, hair dryer, trouser presser - some with ironing board, some of the rooms have a make up mirror, original art work by contemporary
Clarion Hotel Admiral
Built at the turn of the century as a warehouse for boats coming and going to Bergen, the hotel was renovated into a waterside hotel in 1987. All 210 rooms have large windows, and 50 rooms have harbour view. All prices include our famous Scandinavia Buffet breakfast. Enjoy Restaurant Emily's for breakfast, lunch or dinner (buffet or a la carte menu) looking out over the great sights of Bergen. Clarion Hotel Admiral is located a 2 minutes walk from Bergen Fish Market; and 6 minutes walk from Fløibanen funicular and the Bryggen tourist shopping area. Welcome! * General facilities o allergy room, o parking, o elevator, o hairdryer, o minibar, o non-smoking rooms, o family room, o wireless Internet, o dogs allowed, o reception, o bathtub, o room service, o trouser press, o Travel time to aiport in minuts (30), o bar, o restaurant and o Distance from the airport in km. (18) * Capacity o number of beds (390) and o number of bedrooms (210) * Conference facilities o number of meeting rooms (6), o maximum number of conference participants (180), o maximum banquet seating (150), o conference rooms (120 pers.), o function rooms, o flipchart, o whiteboard, o video projector 1024x768, o overhead projector, o number of persons in largest conference room (180), o number of attendees (180) and o number of attendees (180) * Credit cards o American Express, o Diners Club, o Visa and o MasterCard * Licensed premises o fully licensed * Disabled persons o adapted for disabled * Activities o boat
Steens Hotel
Style and atmosphere from 1890 is well preserved in this part of central Bergen and also in the interior of Steen's Bed and Breakfast Hotel. The house has been owned and run by the Steen family since 1950. Today we have 21 rooms of good hotel standard with private toilet and shower, telephone, wireless internet access and cable-TV. Most rooms face the park. Good parking outside the hotel. Short walking distance to bus and railway station and the centre of town. Our reasonable prices include a good Norwegian breakfast. - Welcome! # General facilities * parking, * hairdryer, * cable TV, * non-smoking rooms, * family room, * wireless Internet, * reception and * clothes iron # Capacity * number of bedrooms
Hotel Park Bergen
Hotel Park Bergen is a cosy hotel which has that personal touch. It has 33 hotel rooms, 22 of which are found in the main building which was built in 1890. The other rooms are located in the building straight across the street from the reception. All the rooms are comfortably furnished. and have an en suite bathroom with shower and toilet, cable TV and free wireless access to the Internet. Guests who have booked single room, will be upgraded to double room if we have free capacity. For those of you who are going to stay with us for a shorter or longer period and would like a little bit of extra comfort, we can offer you our suite which is 46 square metres and has its own living room, separate bedroom with a double bed and an en suite bathroom with toilet and shower. The suite is located on the top
Solstrand Hotel & Bad
Solstrand Hotel is situated right by the fjord only 30 km south of Bergen and the airport. This unique location right by the Bjřrnefjord, an arm of the Hardangerfjord, is as beautiful and serene as it is convenient. Solstrand has been in the Schau-Larsen family for four generations, preserving a tradition of unsurpassed hospitality, traditional cuisine and a pleasant and relaxed
Dorm.no Apartments
Dorm.no is located in the town center, just 5 minutes walk from the train station, Torgallmenningen and Bryggen. Dorm.no is an option when you are looking for an affordable and informal accommodation in the heart of Bergen. It is walking distance to most attractions including the fish market, Funicular, Grieg Concert Hall, museums, shops and nightlife. Dorm.no is primarily an option for youth, students, Interrail, study (groups), sports clubs, bands / chorus, etc. Dorm.no comprises of a total of 5 dormitories respectively. 4, 8, 10, 12 and 14 beds pr. dorm room. Here are basic kitchen and bathroom facilities in the common areas and free access to wireless networks. Private bedding (sleeping bags) are not accepted due to hygienic conditions, we have therefore included the bedding in the price. During the winter of 2008 we opened a new restaurant, Jacobs Bar & Kitchen, which serves an a la carte menu, hot dishes and drinks. The chefs at Jacobs previously worked with world champions, Michelin star collectors, trend setters and the best craftsmen. We also boast with a wine list that emphasizes organic and natural wines. We wish to offer our guests something out of the ordinary. * General facilities o pub, o wireless Internet, o cable TV, o TV, o modernized during the last 5 years, o distance from parking place, o no pets, o no smoking, o bed linen, o bar and o restaurant * Capacity o number of beds (46) * Season o all year round * Credit cards o Diners Club, o Eurocard, o Visa, o MasterCard and o BankAxept * Licensed premises o fully licensed * Kitchen and household o kitchen available and o
Kjellersmauet Gjestehus
Kjellersmauet Guesthouse is in Bergen's popular area of old wooden houses, right in the centre of Bergen. Each apartment has its own charm, and all are fully equipped with TV, kitchenette and a private bathroom. * Capacity o number of beds (18) * Season o all year round * Other accommodation o flats * Kitchen and household o kitchen
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Time Management is an interesting topic for students and I felt I should share some of my personal experiences in the matter. Over my first two years as a Northern Illinois Business Student I have learned some strategies to help with time management. My freshman year like most students was an adjusting period from the likes of no finals and AP classes in high school to 250 person lecture halls and an array of general education courses. The idea of balancing work and fun has always been a tough one for me personally. Over my first semester I felt that I had to focus solely on school which is still very true but I felt I was missing out on exploring other avenues on campus. This became evident where I saw my friends get involved in student organizations, athletics, and social fraternities/sororities.
The key for most students is to find the balance between studies and getting involved throughout campus. There are some instances where students get way to involved in the sense where they don't have time for their studies or even just to get a good night of sleep. In reality as a student this is an unhealthy lifestyle due to certain key aspects of your life that you're neglecting such as studies, regularly eating and even sleep. Personally my first organization/club I joined was club tennis which is offered as a sports club through the recreation center on campus. At first, I was very timid since I wasn't sure how much time I would be able to commit to the club each week. As the first week went on I saw two categories of people throughout the tennis club. There was the person that was very devoted to the club and was a regular at practice and notified the club if they were going to be late or unable to make it. In addition, there was the person that only studies and doesn't join organizations or enjoy certain aspects of college such as athletics, homecoming, networking with alumni.
As I entered my sophomore year I started to find that balance when I took over the NIU Tennis Club here at Northern. It gave me the chance to make something my own and the ability to reshape the club for future success. There were many challenges along the way in terms of funding, reliability among members and lack of players but overall a great experience. It will play an important role as I develop even more skills for future job interviews and internships. It gave me the opportunity to take a leadership role here as a sophomore and paved the way for success in such roles as I continued my education. At some points throughout the year it did become an issue when it came to time. One week I might have three tests and a few projects the next nothing at all. The key for this situation was to somehow balance all of my school work and time devoted to tennis. I then joined organizations NIU Cause and Lambda Sigma which created a nice balance of the honors program, athletics and something with in the College of Business.
Now as you can see I didn't really start to get involved on campus until Sophomore Year. What I recommend for freshman to do once they are on campus. The most important event to attend as a freshman is the Involvement Fair during the first weekend on campus. The fair gives every student organization on campus a voice and the opportunity to tell incoming freshman what they do and when they meet. The idea that there are over 300 student organizations on campus is unbelievable it's something you can't get at a community college or just any college. There are fraternities and sororities that are social and classified as business professional. There are over 30 sports club here at Northern Illinois all the way from Bass Fishing to Roller Hockey. Just in the College of Business alone there are 28 student organizations across the six majors in the college. My message to all students is to get involved it's been one of the most rewarding things I have done here at Northern Illinois University. At first it doesn't have to be a big commitment it can resemble my story where I picked up my tennis racket and showed up to tennis club. Our student leaders and members of these student organizations on campus are all great people and have shown great leadership skills for taking on the roles they hold. There are only four years here at NIU and believe me they go very quick. In the fall of 2011 I was in all of your shoes as I have mentioned above a freshman looking to get involved with student organizations. In my mind there is no harm checking out these student organizations. They can only benefit you as time move forwards with the network you build for future job interviews and lasting friendships that should last a lifetime.
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text: By Jason Margolis No other major country emits more carbon dioxide pollution per person than Australia. Those emissions come largely from Australia's big coal, mineral, and agriculture sectors. Now, the Australian government has unveiled plans to impose a tax on carbon emissions for the country's worst polluters. "We will require around 500 big polluters to pay a price for every ton of carbon pollution they put into our atmosphere," said Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard at a news conference. "At the moment those big polluters can release that pollution into our atmosphere for free." The proposal will tax carbon emissions at about $25 a ton, and it comes after months of gruelling negotiations within Gillard's coalition government. The government officially calls it putting a price on carbon, avoiding the word "tax," which has not been well received in Australia. By whatever name, many farmers are among the Australians most opposed to the idea. At a cattle auction in the small town of Griffith, I got an earful from people there, complaining about their government. "They just, I don't know, they've just gone off their rockers, haven't they?" said 62 year-old Jim Jackson, who has worked in agriculture his whole life. Jackson, and many others I met in Griffith, said the government's plan is too severe. And Jackson says Australians' carbon emissions are a drop in the worldwide bucket. "The amount of carbon that we actually produce for 20 million people, it's bulls*#t," Jackson said. (Australian population is approximately 22 million.) Jackson is also among the vocal minority of Australians who refute accepted climate science. But other opponents just think a carbon tax is the wrong way to solve the problem. Mitch Hooke, the chief executive of the Minerals Council of Australia, said he favors the European "cap and trade" system. Under that scheme, governments set a carbon pollution cap. Then companies pay a penalty if they pollute, or get money back if they're under the cap. Hooke says a straight tax puts Australian companies at a disadvantage. "It means that companies will strategically deploy capital where it can be best utilized," Hooke said. "And if it means that they can move their resources and their business activities to a country that doesn't have the same kind of constraints, then that's what happens. And so they take their business activity offshore and their emissions with them," That argument doesn't hold water among many economists. Frank Jotzo, director of the Center for Climate Economics and Policy at the Australian National University in Canberra, said it's a myth that industry will pack up and leave Australia. Jotzo said Australian industry has fought any climate plan for years, and has had plenty of time to prepare for this day. The Australian carbon tax is also slated to transform into a European-style emissions trading system after three years. Meanwhile, Jotzo points out, the Australian plan would invest some of the carbon tax revenue in efficiency and renewable energy projects. "If you take a long view, there are tremendous opportunities for Australia, because Australia is also one of the countries that has the greatest potential for renewable energy, for zero carbon energy of the world," Jotzo said. "Because we've got all this land, and the sun shines, right? It's pretty much as basic as that." Other high-emission countries, and climate policy watchers, will be watching the economic impacts of Australia's move closely. Alden Meyer, with the Union of Concerned Scientists in Washington, said he can't predict if the new carbon plan will spur other nations to take action. That said, Meyer did offer a prediction of the reaction in Washington, which has so far produced no plan to limit carbon emissions. "It's hard to say that what happens in Australia is going to change the dynamic in the current Congress, certainly in the House," said Meyer. "The current Republican leadership in the House of Representatives is going after anything with the word 'climate' in it. And there are a significant number of those members who assert that climate change is not even real or human induced." The Australian carbon plan next goes to the country's parliament for a vote, where it's widely expected to pass.


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A signature-petition group trying to place 20-year, $20 billion conservation amendment on the ballot is flexing some fundraising muscle to get the question to voters next fall.
Environmentalists from Audubon of Florida, the Trust for Public Land, Sierra Club, Wildlife Federation and other groups have mustered nearly enough signatures to place a question on the November 2014 ballot that would steer billions of tax dollars to conservation programs, including springs protection and the Everglades.
Fed up with state budget cuts during the Great Recession, the groups have raised $1.3 million over the last year, and enlisted more than 340 organizations to help push the constitutional amendment.
The organization overseeing the drive, Florida's Water and Land Legacy Inc., says it has amassed more than 500,000 of the 683,149 valid voter signatures needed to make the ballot and hopes to collect the rest by the end of November.
The biggest donors to date include: Newberry conservationist Gladys Cofrin ($210,000 to the campaign plus a separate 'Florida Conservation" political committee supporting the drive); The Trust fro Public Land (which has given $50,000 in cash, $152,000 in "in kind" support); M.C. Davis ($125,000); Florida Wildlife Federation ($117,000, and another $19,000 in in-kind); and a host of other donors.
Plus, a number of prominent law firms/PR people are working for free for the campaign, including Holland & Knight ($88,000 in in-kind work); Akerman Senterfitt ($29,200); and Ron Sachs Communications ($13,300).
The effort is drawing lukewarm responses from traditional business groups. The Florida Chamber is opposed to it. The Realtors are staying no the sidelines until at least November. While House and Senate leaders are opposed to it, but unsure if they plan to mount any resistance campaign themselves.


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(Reuters) - Flight attendants at US Airways Group Inc, looking to bring more pressure on the carrier to reach a contract agreement, voted by a 94 percent margin to authorize a strike, their union said on Tuesday.
The workers, represented by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, twice this year voted down a proposed contract with US Airways, which is in talks with bankrupt American Airlines parent AMR Corp about a potential merger.
The union's negotiating committee said it would take its proposal for better economic terms, backed up by the strike vote authorization, to the U.S. National Mediation Board and press for additional mediation sessions in hopes of reaching a joint contract that workers would ratify.
Federal law makes it difficult for airline unions to strike. Mediators would have to declare an impasse and release the parties from talks in order to begin the countdown to a strike.
"Other than understandable frustration on the part of the flight attendant group, there's really no near-term implications" of the strike vote, said Robert Mann, an airline consultant based in Port Washington, N.Y.
The present US Airways, which has about 6,700 flight attendants, was formed from a 2005 merger with America West Airlines. Flight attendants at the combined carrier have been working under separate contracts for years as their union has negotiated to reach a joint agreement.
"We don't want to strike," union leaders who represent the former America West and US Airways flight attendants said in a statement on Tuesday. "Profits are soaring, but flight attendants still shoulder the sacrifices forced through bankruptcy a decade ago as well as disparate, industry-low pay of a first contract from 1999."
In an emailed statement, US Airways said federal mediators have not released the flight attendants union to strike, so there will be no operational disruptions during the holiday travel season.
"The union has told our flight attendants that the strike vote is about positioning at the bargaining table and not about striking, and the union has not requested that the National Mediation Board cease the mediation and negotiations process," the carrier's statement added.
Shares of US Airways rose 3.5 percent to $12.49 on Tuesday.
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Police: Maine Zumba defendant deleted emails
An insurance agent charged with promoting prostitution deleted all the email from his office computer a day after investigators raided his mistress' Zumba dance studio, office and home, a law enforcement computer expert testified Monday.
Frederick Williams of the Saco Police Department told jurors that he found spreadsheets, tax documents and snapshots from Skype video chats on defendant Mark Strong's computer and on computer equipment belonging to fitness instructor Alexis Wright, who's accused of using her Zumba studio as a front for prostitution.
Jurors weren't told of sexually explicit images on Strong's computer that prosecutors contend show he knew about the prostitution. The defense said showing the panel the more than 500 photos would be prejudicial.
"It's going to horrify some of these people to the point (Strong) is not going to be able to get a fair verdict," defense lawyer Daniel Lilley told the judge while the jury was out of earshot. He said it was a "stretch" to say possession of pornography meant Strong knew about prostitution.
On Tuesday, jurors were asked to report to duty several hours later than usual so Justice Nancy Mills and lawyers can discuss several motions and evidentiary issues.
One issue up for discussion was whether personnel records of Kennebunk police officers must be turned over to the defense, which intends to attack the integrity of the chief investigator.
Also up for discussion was Lilley's motion to dismiss all remaining counts because prosecutors have repeatedly missed deadlines for turning over documents.
Monday's testimony focused largely on 86 items seized from Strong's Thomaston home and business in July, months after police raided Wright's home, studio and office in Kennebunk on Valentine's Day.
Williams, the police computer expert, examined computers and hard drives, and said Strong deleted all his email before Feb. 15, 2012. He also was able to recover pornographic snapshots recovered from Skype video chats between Strong and Wright.
A state police detective also testified that 41 items - including much of the computer equipment and hard drives - remained in state police custody but that one hard drive was included in 45 items that were placed in the custody of Kennebunk police investigator Audra Presby.
The defense contends police targeted Strong, who held a private investigator's license, because he was looking into unprofessional conduct by Presby and other Kennebunk officers. The hard drive that ended up with Presby contained details of Strong's investigation, the defense says.
Strong helped Wright launch her Pura Vida dance-fitness studio by co-signing for her lease and loaning money with commercial notes that she repaid with interest. He contends he didn't know anything about allegations of prostitution.
The prostitution scandal attracted international attention after it was reported that Wright had ledgers indicating she made $150,000 over 18 months and had more than 150 clients, some of them prominent.
Strong and Wright have pleaded not guilty. Wright will be tried later for dozens of charges that include prostitution and tax violations.
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A trapper education class is scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 19 at the Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Butte Area Office (1820 Meadowlark Lane). The class is free of charge and all are welcome to attend. Pre-registration is required by contacting Vanna Boccadori at 494-2082.
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Friday, February 25, 2011 | Posted by Brodd Family at 4:09 PM 0 comments
Day 2
A new day, but the same results... this time with the mountain of snow that the plow pushed up. Thank you City of Woodbury!
Sylvia conquered the mountain to hug the tree...
and then thought it to be a good idea to blow some bubbles (it wasn't)
Bring on the 50 degree weather.... My back could use a break!
Monday, February 21, 2011 | Posted by Brodd Family at 5:06 PM 1 comments
Yeah... More Snow
While the 50 degree weather a week ago was nice, today's storm let us know that we do live in Minnesota and should expect nothing less.
The good news was that I had a helper tonight. Even with the wind and blowing snow, Sylvia was a trooper and enjoyed her time outside with dad.
If it snows too much more, I think it will be up to her neck!
Drive safe everyone and enjoy your President's Day.
Sunday, February 20, 2011 | Posted by Brodd Family at 7:05 PM 0 comments
Ice Cream for Breakfast!
This past Saturday marked the annual Ice Cream for Breakfast day and not to let the holiday down, we had to have ice cream for breakfast. While Sylvia opted for the more traditional ice cream cone - Aaron, Jen, Jamie, and I had ice cream topped waffles.... YUMMY!
After the sugar high wore off, we finally tackled the wall hanging project in the living room. I don't think we could have done it without Sylvia's help. Sorry for no pictures of the finished project, but I think it looks pretty nice.
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A case of mistaken identity: Big snail is beneficial, not bad
A case of mistaken identity sparked a false alarm this week when word spread that the giant African snail - a voracious mollusk that poses a potential health threat to humans - had come to town.
Turns out the big snail found in a Houston garden is beneficial, not bad. It was a rosy wolf snail, a predator of snails that devour garden plants, said Michael Warriner, invertebrate biologist with Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
The good snail's story, like that of the bad snail's, seems like science fiction. But it comes with a happy ending.
Photos of the suspicious snail tipped Warriner to its identity. Both the rosy wolf snail and the giant African snail have appendices for seeing and smelling. But the rosy wolf snail has a third set, oral lappets, that help it locate other snails' slime. It then grabs its prey and rasps it with its radula, which works like a rough tongue, Warriner explained
In addition to its extra appendices, the rosy wolf snail matures to 2 or 3 inches, considerably smaller than the potentially 8-inch giant African snail, Warriner said.
"It's not uncommon for the rosy wolf to be mistaken for the giant African snail," said Tanya Espinosa, public affairs specialist at U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Without proper identification in this case, panic spread.
"We had people sending photos of snails," Espinosa said. "But as of now, there's no reason to believe the giant African snail is in Texas."
"However, it is fantastic people are alerting local and state officials when they see something suspicious," she said. "That's how it works, what it's set up for."
The giant African snail is considered one of the most destructive snails and a serious threat to crops. It's known to eat 500 plant species. It can also carry rat lungworm, a parasitic nematode that causes meningitis, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports. The snail's slime also can transmit the parasite.
The African snail has been a problem in Florida, where the state agriculture department has collected more than 100,000 in the past two years.
Two other large but harmless snails in Houston-area gardens may be mistaken for the more dangerous giant African: the island apple snail and the channeled apple snail, said Autumn Smith-Herron of the Institute for the Study of Invasive Species at Sam Houston State University.
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Interoperability impacts businesses, institutions and government agencies the world over.This session will focus on the value and benefits of customer driven, vendor supported interoperability. A series of short presentations will be followed by an interactive panel discussion to address the direction of interoperability in the changing IT landscape. Please join us to learn more about the importance of interoperability today in helping your business succeed tomorrow.
Andrew Aitken is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Olliance Group, the leading open source management consultancy. He is a recognized expert on strategies for the commercialization of open source and has been a leader in the open source community for nearly 10 years. Andrew has more than 20 years senior management experience in building and leading national professional services firms, including Renaissance Worldwide and eWork.
In 2001 Mr. Aitken founded Olliance Group with other industry veterans to provide management and business strategy consulting to companies leveraging open source. In January 2005, Mr. Aitken spearheaded the software industry's first "think tank" on the future of commercial open source, now a bi-annual event held in Napa, CA and Paris, France, and regularly attended by the industry's leading CEO's and visionaries. Mr. Aitken has participated as an expert witness on the issues of open source and e-voting to the California Senate. Andrew has chaired and spoken internationally at multiple industry and government conferences, is a member of the Open Source Software Institute's and SDForum's Board of Directors, Chair of SDForum's annual Open Source Conference, is on the Board of Advisors of SugarCRM, Actuate, Funambol and Krugle and has personally worked with companies such as: IBM, Sun, Intel, Nokia, HP, and others, assisting them with developing their open source strategies.
Fabio Da Cunha is a Senior Manager with Microsoft's Interoperability Alliances team responsible for sales and technical evangelism for Microsoft's partnership with Novell. Fabio is a native of Brazil and joined Microsoft two years ago after an extensive career in technical consulting across a breadth of Microsoft and Linux-based technologies for the enterprise.
Frank Rego is a Senior Product Manager in Novell's Open Platform Solutions business unit and is responsible for managing the technical collaboration with Microsoft. Frank joined Novell from Immunix, a startup company that developed the AppArmor security technology for Linux which is now an integrated piece of the SUSE Linux Enterprise platform. Frank has an engineering degree from the University of California at Berkeley, and an MBA from Portland State University.
Nick has over 25 years of experience in enterprise software, and has played a leading role in the emergence of both the business intelligence and commercial open source markets. Most recently Mr. Halsey was the chief marketing officer at Keynote Systems, the market leader in mobile and web testing and monitoring. Previously Nick was chief marketing officer and executive vice president of corporate development at SugarCRM, where he managed the company's overall go-to-market strategy. Prior to SugarCRM, Halsey served as the vice president of marketing and product management at Jaspersoft Corporation, the leading open source business intelligence company. He was a co-founder and board member of Biz360, an innovator in social media monitoring and market intelligence solutions that was recently acquired by Attensity Group, and also served as the founding vice president of sales and marketing for Brio Software, where for over six years he helped lead the company to $200 million in sales and a successful IPO. Mr. Halsey also served as the CMO and executive vice president of corporate development at Alphablox, guiding it to an acquisition by IBM.
Jay Lyman covers enterprise applications, IT systems management and the trends at the core of disruption in these areas – including open source software, cloud computing, the confluence of application development and deployment known as devops, mobility, and polyglot programming. Jay's analysis encompasses evolving software development and release models, as well as the technology used to create, deploy and support applications in today's enterprise and service-provider markets.
As a 451 Research analyst, Jay has been a speaker at numerous industry events, including Devops Days, LinuxCon, the Open Source Business Conference and OSCON, covering topics such as cloud computing, mobile software, devops and enterprise case studies.
Prior to joining 451 Research, Jay wrote for a number of IT publications, including LinuxInsider and TechNewsWorld, NewsForge/Linux.com, Web Host Industry Review and CMP Media, where he covered software and IT infrastructure, development and products, as well as other technology and business topics. He has also written for other news organizations, including the Associated Press, Los Angeles Times and Time Magazine. Jay holds a BA in Journalism from San Diego State University. Jay's Twitter handle is @ripcitylyman.
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Manage your Navigation Voice settings
First, pair your iPhone or iPad to your car or Bluetooth accessory. Then follow these steps to manage your Navigation Voice settings when you're getting turn-by-turn directions:
- Open Maps on your iPhone or iPad and enter your destination.
- After you tap Go, Maps will start turn-by-turn navigation. Tap the gray line to open the Route Card.
- Tap Audio.
- Tap the volume level that you want for Navigation Voice.
- Scroll until you see your output options, then choose which output you want the Navigation to play from.
You can also control settings to pause the audio during navigation or control the audio output from your iPhone or iPad. When audio plays, the audio output can only be managed from Control Center on your iPhone or iPad.
Allow Navigation Voice Prompts
Hands-free profile (HFP) allows navigation prompts to play through your car speakers when iPhone isn't selected as the audio source. If you don't see the HFP option, your car stereo might not support it. Check the user guide for your car to see if your stereo supports HFP.
If you don't see the HFP setting when your iPhone is connected to your stereo, check with the stereo manufacturer. The HFP feature depends on your car stereo.
Pause Spoken Audio
Spoken Audio briefly pauses audiobooks and podcasts whenever Maps provides spoken directions. Spoken Audio doesn't pause music.
Pause Spoken Audio is on by default if your Navigation Voice is set to Normal Volume or Loud Volume. If you select No Voice or Low Volume, Pause Spoken Audio turns off.


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In The Drink
The Weakening of the Safe Water Drinking Act
Thursday, June 1, 1995
In The Drink
The Weakening of the Safe Water Drinking Act
In 1993-94 over 53 million Americans drank water that did not meet Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) health or biological treatment standards or guidelines. In the Drink documents, on a community-by-community basis, drinking water utilities that have been listed as violating or exceeding these basic health and treatment safety standards.
- Millions of individuals are made sick by unhealthy drinking water.
- Drinking water plants are old and out of date, and water supplies are increasingly threatened and contaminated with chemicals or microorganisms.
- Current standards do not adequately protect large parts of the population -- particularly children or those suffering from illnesses.
In spite of the high health costs of unsafe drinking water, Congress, urged on by the nation's drinking water utilities, is poised to weaken the Safe Drinking Water Act.
Legislation pending in the House and Senate would weaken current law in a number of critical ways, including:
- Weakening the Act's standard-setting provisions.
- Curtailing water safety monitoring and reducing the public's right to know about drinking water problems.
- Reducing protections for those who need it most - small and medium sized communities having the largest problems obtaining safe water.
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Maybe you are feeling pretty good about yourself; maybe as the second week of Great Lent (first for the Orthodox) winds down you have succeeded in whatever sacrifice you have undertaken, made real progress.
Lest you succumb to pride, let me share this with you, the traditional rules of fasting from the Orthodox Church in America website (I have highlighted the more humbling passages):
On weekdays in the first week, fasting is particularly severe. According to strict observance, in the course of the five initial days of Lent, only two meals are eaten, one on Wednesday and the other on Friday, in both cases after the Liturgy of the Presanctified. On the other three days, those who have the strength are encouraged to keep an absolute fast; those for whom this proves impracticable may eat on Tuesday and Thursday (but not, if possible, on Monday), in the evening after Vespers, when they may take bread and water, or perhaps tea or fruit-juice, but not a cooked meal. It should be added at once that in practice today these rules are commonly relaxed. At the meals on Wednesday and Friday xerophagy is prescribed. Literally this means 'dry eating'. Strictly interpreted, it signifies that we may eat only vegetables cooked with water and salt, and also such things as fruit, nuts, bread and honey. In practice, octopus and shell-fish are also allowed on days of xerophagy; likewise vegetable margarine and corn or other vegetable oil, not made from olives. But the following categories of food are definitely excluded:On weekdays (Monday to Friday inclusive) in the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth weeks, one meal a day is permitted…
Holy Week. On the first three days there is one meal each day, with xerophagy; but some try to keep a complete fast on these days, or else they eat only uncooked food, as on the opening days of the first week. On Holy Thursday one meal is eaten, with wine and oil (i.e., olive oil). On Great Friday those who have the strength follow the practice of the early Church and keep a total fast. Those unable to do this may eat bread, with a little water, tea or fruit-juice, but not until sunset, or at any rate not until after the veneration of the [Plashchanitsa] at Vespers. On Holy Saturday there is in principle no meal, since according to the ancient practice after the end of the Liturgy of St. Basil the faithful remained in church for the reading of the Acts of the Apostles, and for their sustenance were given a little bread and dried fruit, with a cup of wine. If, as usually happens now, they return home for a meal, they may use wine but not oil; for on this one Saturday, alone among Saturdays of the year, olive oil is not permitted.
This is followed by a reminder that fasting is not legalistic, and advice to use common sense. Indeed, I have a friend, a fellow letter carrier, who attempted a strict fast during Lent one year. They found him on the route, passed out. Still, it is hard for me to conceive of this sort of rigorous fasting, and it helps keep my efforts in perspective.
But perhaps this is not your problem; perhaps you have already succumbed to that sausage pizza or second cup of coffee, or whatever it is you had promised to sacrifice. In that case, remember that it is better to spend Lent eating steak and cake in humility than to take pride in your feats of self denial.
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Steve Trevino
Steve Trevino was born in Gregory-Portland, Texas and got started in stand-up comedy when he told jokes in his 2nd grade talent show. At a young age he was performing anywhere he could, from backyard barbecues to school functions. Trevino had his first professional gig in Corpus Christi at the Harbor Playhouse opening for Carlos Mencia at the age of nineteen.
Soon after, Steve was off to Dallas with stars in his eyes in pursuit of his career and got a job as a door man at the Addison Improv in order to garner stage time. He quickly earned his stripes to become the house MC, opening up for big acts traveling through the club who encouraged him to bite the bullet and move to Los Angeles. His first big road tour came about with the Three Amigos Comedy Tour, featuring Mencia, Pablo Francisco, and the late Freddy Soto, just one of the greats to whom Steve has been compared, a likeness that Steve wears as a badge of honor. Coming off rave reviews he went on to become one of the youngest comedians ever to headline the Improv Comedy Club and continues to be a top draw.
Steve performed in Spanish on Despierta America on Univsion. He is a regular doing short sketches and man on the street for the syndicated program American Latino. He has appeared on The Late Late show with Craig Ferguson, Comedy.TV, Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen, BET Comic View and Que Locos. He's become a staple at large events such as the Latino Laugh Festival, New Faces at Just For Laughs in Montreal and the Doghouse Comedy Jam in San Francisco. Steve was also a writer for and appeared on the Mind Of Mencia.
Recently, Steve was featured in the Laugh Out Loud Comedy Festival along with comic greats Jay Mohr, Rita Rudner, Tommy Chong and Bill Bellamy. His first hour-long special was filmed during the festival and premiered on Showtime® in October 2012 placing in the Top 20 of the Nielsen Media Research Ratings. Showtime® raved saying, "Though Trevino may seem as American as any Texan can be, his distinctive stories of finding his way from a Hispanic upbringing in Corpus Christi to living his dream in Hollywood make for a comedy brand that is all his own."
Steve is currently developing a ½ hour scripted comedy show about his life. He resides in Los Angeles and performs in venues throughout the country. He has several tour dates on the calendar, which can be seen on his website stevetrevino.com and is working on his 2nd 1hr comedy special to film in fall of 2013.


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However, his life was marred by illness. He contracted syphilis at a relatively young age, and in 1888 he became mentally ill during a visit to Brittany, having religious hallucinations and believing that he was God and Christ.
He was later taken to hospital in Uppsala and diagnosed with schizophrenia, but continued working throughout his disease, often while in a trance-like state.
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You might find that your Mac starts up with Boot Camp in Windows, but the installation of Windows Support Software doesn't complete.
If this happens, the complete installation might be prevented by RealTek software. You can allow installation to continue by ending the processes related to RealTek.
Follow the steps on the Windows website to end a process.


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OutRun defined a generation of driving games in the 80s. Not racing, not a simulation, yet it was one of SEGA's biggest ever hits. And this is how you could play with it at home: meet Martin Webb.
About 30 years ago, if you wanted to play a video game you could either go down to your local arcade and blow coins until the owner shut all power down or you spent all that money to buy a video game console, or even better: a microcomputer, for a good reason. I got to talk to Martin Webb, developer of the Commodore 64 version of the highly acclaimed arcade hit, OutRun:
At the time the UK government was promoting information technology by running articles on "whizz-kids" - kids that made it big by writing their own programs and got rich. They were photographed in Porsches in magazines. In fact, it was all a lie. There was no truth in it. These kids didn't have Porsches... they had... they lived quite modestly.
Martin was one of those lesser-socializing young ones who escaped reality and created their own virtual reality in their computers.
School was a mess. It was a real low-down facility. The students didn't care. The teachers didn't care. I had a really hard time with English, Maths and all the other subjects. But when the the school was chosen for a project to teach computer science, I jumped at the opportunity. My parents bought me a Sinclair ZX and I started writing my own programs. Within months, I was teaching class. Within a semester, I was showing the teacher new things in BASIC.
One of the iconic games at the time was OutRun from SEGA, a major hit with its Miami Vice-esque coolness of driving a Ferrari Testarossa with a blond girl in the passenger seat, pulling huge drifts on the most beautiful roads on the planet, choosing the route at your will. The were no opponents, no weapons, no boosts, just pure driving in the wonderful surroundings to a magical soundtrack. An absolute drivers' fantasy. In many ways it is the perfect arcade game.
At the time I was totally into cars, so I was writing racing games. I had one with a Porsche, racing the same way as in OutRun, fitted with a dashboard, a steering wheel - you name it. One day, one of the magazines was running an ad from US Gold, looking for program writers for their coin-op conversions. I told my dad: "This is it, we should do it."
Due to the harsh difference between arcade cabinets and microcomputers - even consoles -, differences between various ports were immense, too, at the time. In some cases it took 7-8 years for home versions of an arcade game to catch up with the original. It was not merely simple porting, but recreating the game to a much lower-spec. machine. US Gold was one of the publishers that dealt with arcade game recreations to home systems, housing CentreSoft software developing company.
We went to US Gold's office in Birmingham, and already in the parking lot there were Ferraris and Porsches. We went to see Geoff Brown - founder of the company. Turned out the Ferrari Tesstarossa was his. We met Geoff and I saw they had an OutRun cabinet. He asked if I was interested in doing the Commodore 64 conversion. I showed him the Porsche game I had done. He was very impressed. Within half an hour I got the job. There were no specifics asked to do as the game I did was pretty much in accordance with OutRun.
They moved a cabinet in my house so I could play it and see how it worked. My father was taking measures at it: he was recording the track, every turn inch by inch - he was really good at it. He did the graphics, I did the coding on an Atari ST, then loaded it to the C64.
The process wasn't easy or painless, though.
I finished the music-selection screen quickly, but the real challenge was how to get the game working. Speed was a priority. For me, that was the most important part, so we kept the graphics to a minimum as possible. It was fast, but still a bit chunky. Also, we didn't include the forks, because it would have been too complicated.
We worked 20 hours a day, sleeping 3-4 hours, and then my dad woke me up and urged us into continuing. I was 18 years old, I felt like crying. This went on for months.
Finally, the game shaped up and went back to Geoff Brown for previewing the game.
He liked it very much. He said we should totally do the four other stages. Originally, our game had only one route to run through, which we had to expand to five. It wasn't just the sections - it was writing a new loader and everything. Moreover, they wanted to publish the game for Christmas and I had only few months left and a holiday booked. Geoff told me to cancel the trip and that he would pay me another one after - which he did, very nice bloke. If I was in the same situation now - being 47 - I'm sure I'd have second thoughts about it, but then it was like "Ah well - let's do it!"
So we did the rest of OutRun with a route selector offered at the beginning of the game. Went back to Birmingham - this is a few days before Christmas - for a final test of the software. There was a huge room full of people testing the game simultaneously. All of a sudden one of them put their hands up and said: "I've got a bug." Geoff looked at it, it was a blank screen and then he turned to me: "You must fix it right away." I was shattered. All that work invested in the game and now this. But I had no choice, they were ready to print 20,000 copies on the spot for the Christmas pre-sale.
So I did it, they went on with the game and I went off to Mallorca for a holiday, and while I was there, the game started selling. In fact, it went No.1 in Spain during my stay and quickly it become the best-ever selling game in the world at the time.
Not much after I got a call from SEGA US in San Francisco - I can't remember the guy's name - and he said: "Hi, I'm this-and-this from SEGA US, we really liked what you did with OutRun and we would like to ask you to do the US-version of your C64 version." So I flew to Chicago and did the NTSC equivalent. I actually managed to edge the game out a little bit, so the US-version is better, it runs much smoother.
How did Martin benefit from the deal?
For developing the game, me and my dad received 20,000GBP for the six months we were working on it and revenues from the sales. I didn't get much from the US-conversion - they went a bit tricky with the contract - but had I received revenues from that too, probably I would do really well now. But I wasn't doing it for the money. I was doing it for fun - that's all I could do and I loved it. Had not my dad been hard on me - pushing me each and every day, waking me up early in the morning - I would have not gone this way at all. I've been programming since, that's all my life.
In fact, he has written a few more games after and he's still in software development, travelling around the world, working on his latest project, Tillify.
Tillify is one of my largest projects to date, I've been working on it for a couple of years now. It's a cloud PoS enabling you to track your business anywhere in real time - no servers or any sorts of hardware needed.
And what about OutRun?
Looking back now, it's surreal. I often think about sourcing a cabinet and had I had the time, I would really like to go back to my conversion's source code, going through it, see where it could be improved, fix bugs, whatever, and then put out the ultimate version so people could play it.
We hope it will be so.
Here are (almost) all versions of OutRun, including Martin's:
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Judy Greer is heading to "Two and a Half Men," according to a new report.
The actress will play Bridget, the estranged wife of Ashton Kutcher's Walter Schmidt, a source told The Wrap.
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Bridget is expected to be the woman who causes Walter heartache, which will propel Ashton's storyline and ultimately lead to him taking in Jon Cryer's Alan Harper and Angus T. Jones' Jake Harper.
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"All of us on the set keep referring to the first episode back as the 'pilot' by mistake. [Showrunner] Chuck [Lorre] and I were standing around joking about trying to pitch this show and how ridiculous it would sound to a development executive: 'The guy's been divorced and his brother just passed away, but he meets this billionaire with a broken heart and…' It's like, I would never buy that show," Jon said, "But it's working amazingly well."
The actor also noted that Alan would be helping Walter through his love troubles.
"Alan becomes sort of a mentor character to Ashton's character," Jon said. "I'm a terrible mentor. And that's where a lot of the fun of the show comes from."
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Google has released the full report of the Federal Communications Commission's investigation into the company's collection of "payload data" from millions of business and residential WiFi networks, says the Los Angeles Times. The FCC dropped the investigation earlier this month, after fining Google $25,000 for obstructing the investigation.
A more heavily redacted version of the report was released by the FCC on April 15. The new version released by Google to the LA Times, only redacts names of individuals, and reveals more details about how Google captured the data—and how much the company knew about what was being collected.
The data, which Google claims was stored "inadvertently," was collected over a two-year period by Google's fleet of Street View cars along with photos and the location of WiFi access points. It included personal information from unencrypted wireless networks—captured network packets that included email messages, passwords, and website requests with attached cookie data that could be used to establish website usage history of the users of those networks.
In an email to the LA Times, Google spokeswoman Jill Hazelbaker said that the company "decided to voluntarily make the entire document available except for the names of individuals...While we disagree with some of the statements made in the document, we agree with the FCC's conclusion that we did not break the law. We hope that we can now put this matter behind us."
The FCC ceased its investigation after determining that the unencrypted network traffic wasn't protected by federal wiretap laws, and a key Google witness invoked his Fifth Amendment rights. That witness was a Google engineer—referred to as "Engineer Doe" in the FCC report—that the company claims intentionally added code to the Street View data collection software to capture packets' payload data. Google has declined to name the engineer.
But the FCC report called into question whether the collection of the data was as inadvertent as Google has claimed. Engineer Doe reportedly told two other Google engineers, including a senior manager, that he was collecting payload data as part of Street View. In October of 2006, he gave the entire Street View team a document detailing the work he had done, including the fact that payload data would be logged as part of the data collection.
On Thursday, Google's attorney E. Ashton Johnson sent a letter to the FCC accepting the $25,000 fine—ending the investigation. But the company's letter also blasted the FCC, claiming that the company hadn't done anything wrong, and that the FCC's investigators had themselves obstructed the investigation by dragging their feet, and that the investigation would have ended much sooner if the company hadn't voluntarily agreed to allow a seven-month extension. "This is hardly the act of a party stonewalling the investigation," Johnston wrote.