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THE face towel was scented with lemon grass, and the welcome drink was fresh lemonade poured over crushed ice. Sultry breezes filtered through the open-air lobby decorated in colonial style, with wicker chairs, spinning ceiling fans, faux Southeast Asian antiques and pillars of solid teak. Footpaths wound past date palms, jasmine and frangipani; a swimming pool extended toward an artificial lake clotted with hyacinths. Beyond the lake lay one of the wonders of Southeast Asia: an arid plain speckled with 2,000 Buddhist temples.
On a scorching May morning, I had taken a break from touring these structures to drop by the finest hotel in Bagan, the ancient Burmese capital, an hour's flight north of Yangon, Myanmar. Opened in 2005, the Aureum Palace Hotel sprawls across 27 acres and encompasses a sushi bar, spas, fountains, more than 40 guest rooms and 72 villas. The best of these, the $1,090-a-night Island Villa, includes a lap pool, a sun deck with temple views and a personal valet.
There was only one problem with the Aureum Palace Hotel: its owner. The hotel is the property of U Tay Za, reportedly the richest man in the country — and a close associate of its former military dictator, Gen. Than Shwe. Owner of Air Bagan and Asia Wings (the country's biggest private airlines), five other luxury hotels and beach resorts in Myanmar, and the Htoo Group, a conglomerate that includes mobile-phone services and timber concessions, Mr. Tay Za has been described by the United States Department of the Treasury as a "notorious henchman and arms dealer." After the 2007 Saffron Revolution, when the junta killed dozens of pro-democracy demonstrators and arrested thousands more, the Bush administration froze his assets and blocked him and his family from traveling to the United States.
In the new Myanmar, though, Mr. Tay Za has apparently changed his ways. Following the lead of Myanmar's reformist government, this former crony of the junta is embracing philanthropy and what his son recently described to Reuters as "foundation work." And even though he remains on the Treasury's blacklist, it seems that Western tourists have begun to feel comfortable staying at his hotels. After struggling to fill its rooms for years, the Aureum Palace had an occupancy rate last winter of 80 percent.
Over the past year, Bagan and other destinations in Myanmar have drawn an increasing number of tourists, following the encouraging actions of President Thein Sein. Since taking office in an election that was stage-managed by the military junta in November 2010, Myanmar's leader has freed hundreds of political prisoners, eased censorship laws and established a cordial working relationship with the Nobel Peace Prize-winning opposition leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. Meanwhile, President Obama has eased most sanctions; in July, Mr. Thein Sein addressed American business executives gathered in Cambodia, urging them to invest in his country.
For the travel industry, the repercussions have been profound. Companies that once struggled to persuade clients to visit Myanmar have been deluged: Abercrombie & Kent saw a 90 percent increase in the number of Myanmar-bound tourists between the first quarter of 2011 and the first quarter of 2012; Indochina Travel, headquartered in San Francisco, reported that its Myanmar business has grown from 15 percent of bookings to 35 percent over the past 18 months.
"We believe that it will go up to three-quarters of our business," said Patrick Morris, a director, who described visiting the country as taking a step back in time. "Even the most touristy place in Myanmar still feels authentic," he said. "Nobody there knows that they should be selling you a T-shirt."
With its lush landscapes, Buddhist culture and the mysterious allure of a country that for decades has had limited contact with the outside world, Myanmar has long held a special attraction for adventurous travelers. Tourists began trickling into this former British colony, bordered by China, India, Thailand, Bangladesh and Laos, in the late 1970s when the going was far rougher than it is today. Back then, the government usually issued one-week visas and restricted visitors to a prescribed itinerary. Today tourists typically receive visas that are valid for up to 28 days. Luxury hotels have sprung up, and only a few areas are inaccessible to travelers.
YET the question of whether it is acceptable to visit a country long ruled by a brutal military dictatorship has not gone away. Two years ago the answer was clear; today, it is less so.
Even though Mr. Thein Sein has ostensibly put the country on the path to democracy, Myanmar is hardly free from malign influences. The economy is largely controlled by individuals, like Mr. Tay Za, who amassed their fortunes through alliances with the dictatorship; hundreds of political prisoners remain locked up; and the army is still fighting rebels in northern Kachin State. In June, Buddhists in Arakan State, near the Bangladesh border, and Rohingyas, stateless Muslims who have long been discriminated against by the Burmese government, attacked each other after the rape and murder of a young Buddhist girl.
I've traveled to Myanmar three times in the past 30 years: as a backpacker in 1980, as a journalist in 2010 after the release of Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest and last spring, in the wake of political and economic reforms. On my most recent trip, I spent much of my time in Yangon, Bagan and Inle Lake on the edge of restive Shan State. Throughout the trip I was keenly aware of the moral issues involved in traveling in Myanmar, and attempted to avoid patronizing enterprises that are owned by the country's corrupt elite.
But not everybody, I found, had the same pangs of conscience. Pa Pa Win, the desk manager at the Aureum Palace, told me that most clients don't care about Mr. Tay Za's reputation.
"When guests come here they are focusing only for relaxing," she said, pointing out that Mr. Tay Za provides employment to local people.
But U Bo Ni, my guide in Bagan, and a supporter of Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy, advised tourists to think twice before staying there.
"It is true that Tay Za has provided a lot of employment," said the former English teacher. "On the other hand, he collaborated with the military government, so we don't like him. He is a gangster."
When I arrived in Yangon, I was eager to see how the atmosphere had changed since my last visit. Yangon has grown greatly in recent decades, but in other respects has barely changed: the downtown district beside the Yangon River is still filled with aging tenements, cracked sidewalks where used-book and betel-nut vendors ply their trades and crumbling colonial villas. The prosperous northern corner of the city is dominated by Inya Lake, site of the villa where Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi spent 15 years in house arrest and where she still resides.
I checked into the German-managed Savoy, an intimate faux colonial place. From there it is a 30-minute walk up a steep hill to Shwedagon Pagoda, the city's most venerated landmark. Here Gen. Aung San, the beloved freedom fighter, celebrated Burma's independence from Britain in March 1947, months before his assassination by political rivals. Here, too, his daughter, Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, rallied pro-democracy protesters during the blood bath of August 1988 and started her own political career.
Shwedagon is a Buddhist Disneyland, an exuberant confection of golden Buddhas and teakwood shrines laid out across a marble plaza. These are all mere accompaniments to the main attraction: a soaring gold-leaf-covered stupa said to contain several hairs of the Buddha in a sealed chamber.
During my last visit, I had been followed by two inquisitive monks as I walked around the stupa; these men, I later learned, were probably undercover agents employed by the dictatorship to keep an eye on foreigners. This time, I was not followed.
I was intrigued by another site that was off limits during my last visit: the home in which Gen. Aung San had lived between the end of World War II and his assassination two years later. (His widow and three children remained there until 1953.) The Bogyoke Aung San house museum was closed between 1999 and 2007, and then opened only once a year, on July 19, the anniversary of his murder. But the government lifted the restriction in March.
On a drizzly morning, I visited the 1921 structure with its circular verandas and elaborate turrets and got a glimpse of the Burma that existed in the hopeful days after the war. Here was the dining room table where the general's family gathered, upstairs the chamber with three cots where the toddler Aung San Suu Kyi and her two brothers slept. In the library, the general's bookshelves were jammed with volumes ranging from a small-arms training handbook to a history of the Anglo-Afghan wars. A black 1946 Wolseley sedan was parked in the garage.
Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi's position on tourism in Myanmar has softened over the years. In 1995 she appeared to discourage all tourism, telling an interviewer, "Tourists better stay at home and read some of the many human rights reports." Then in 2011 she urged individual tourists — but not groups — to come to Myanmar, if they go about their travels "in the right way, by using facilities that help ordinary people and avoiding facilities that have close links to the government."
A FEW months ago, a spokesman for the National League for Democracy said that the opposition now welcomes all visitors, as long as they "promote the welfare of the common people and the conservation of the environment."
I flew to Bagan on Air Yangon, a company on the United States' list of sanctioned firms in Myanmar. Although I felt some scruples about patronizing the airline, there weren't any satisfying options; the other airlines that fly to Bagan include Air Bagan and Asian Wings (both owned by the Tay Za-sanctioned Htoo Group), Air Mandalay, (partly owned by the Myanmar government) and Air Kanbawza (owned by the Burmese banker U Aung Ko Win, another confidante of the generals). I was reminded that, when dealing with hotels and airlines in Myanmar, it is difficult to find any that do not have some connection to the junta.
Determined not to stay at the Aureum Palace, I checked into the lodge where I'd stayed once before, the Bagan Hotel River View, with lush gardens dominated by the ruins of an ancient pagoda. The place had some ragged edges: the cavernous lobby was dark, the rooms charmless. The place was owned by the Kaung Myanmar Association, a Burmese group with holdings in construction, agriculture, forestry and the hotel business, that, at least, does not appear on the Treasury's list of sanctioned individuals and companies.
I rented a battered bicycle and pedaled through fields studded with temples. The spires of a pyramidal stupa near my hotel would serve as my beacon in case I got lost. In the distance I could see Mr. Tay Za's most controversial creation: a 200-foot-high viewing complex. With three restaurants and a conference center, the tower, which opened in 2005, is reminiscent of a grain silo, and it has been criticized by Unesco for blighting the landscape.
An hour into my tour, a thorn tree branch caught in my spokes and punctured my tire. I'd lost sight of the stupa and had no idea how to get back. I saw a Burmese family encamped beside some ruins and, with their help, reoriented myself. Ninety minutes later I stumbled to a horse cart stand and headed back to my hotel.
The next day I went with Mr. Bo Ni to one of the grandest temples in Bagan: Dhammayazika, a 12th-century bell-shaped pagoda that towers above the plain. Dhammayazika was the favorite of Gen. Than Shwe's chief rival, Gen. Khin Nyunt, who served as chief of military intelligence and prime minister and lavished a fortune renovating the temple with jewels and gold leaf. Gen. Than Shwe deposed him in 2004 and placed him under house arrest and Dhammayazika fell into disrepair. "Khin Nyunt lost his power, and his pagoda fell apart," Mr. Bo Ni told me, as gold flakes fluttered away in the breeze. But now Gen. Than Shwe has stepped down and Gen. Khin Nyunt, freed last January, recently visited Dhammayazika.
"He felt very sorry to see his pagoda in that state," I was told by the caretaker, a gaunt man with gums stained black from chewing betel nut, and plans to cover it again in gold.
It's not just rehabilitated generals who are pumping money into Myanmar's attractions. Income from tourism is allowing hotels to undertake renovations and has made significant improvements in the lives of those tapped into the tourist economy.
"It's good that foreigners connect with this country, spread their knowledge, assist the economy and observe what is happening inside Myanmar," I had been told earlier in Yangon by U Ba Dhat Aung, a democracy advocate who was recently released from prison and is now a leader of the 88 Generation, an organization of former prisoners.
Mr. Ba Dhat Aung, whom I accompanied to a rally of striking workers at a Chinese-run textile plant outside Yangon, added a few caveats. Some tourist revenue, he pointed out, inevitably ends up in the hands of the government, in the form of taxes and entry fees to tourist zones like Bagan and Inle Lake. Moreover, he said, hard-liners remain a force in Myanmar's government, and many of them seem determined to thwart Mr. Thein Sein's reforms.
"Tourists should proceed cautiously, and think about where they are spending their money," Mr. Ba Dhat Aung said.
A Western diplomat who asked to remain unidentified told me that "most of the owners of hotels, airlines and other parts of the travel industry are cronies" of the former junta. The sanctioned figures include Mr. Aung Ko Win, the airline owner and associate of Myanmar's former second in command, Gen. Maung Aye; and U Tun Myint Naing, known as Steven Law, the son of a 1970s opium trafficker and the managing director of the Asia World conglomerate, which has a stake in Yangon's Traders Hotel, a favorite of well-heeled travelers.
"If you have a sensitivity about these things you might want to think twice" about patronizing such places, the diplomat said.
However, U Myint Aung, who spent seven years in the regime's gulag for his role in the 1988 uprising, and who now runs the Former Political Prisoners' Association in Yangon, said he believed that it was time for reconciliation.
"Let the tourists go to Tay Za's Aureum Palace Hotel," he told me. "Three years ago, we would have said, 'Don't go.' But now we say, 'Come, we have no feelings of revenge.' "
After two days in Bagan, I flew east to Inle Lake and hired a taxi for the hour drive to Nyaungshwe, a ramshackle market town and the jumping-off point for motorized longboats that take visitors to the resorts that line the shore.
Inle's attractions are its floating markets, monasteries, golden-spired Buddhist temples and surrounding hills, populated by exotically attired tribal groups. I bypassed another of Mr. Tay Za's resorts, the Aureum Palace Inle, and spent the night at the Inle Princess Resort, owned by U Ohn Maung, an ethnic Shan and former political prisoner. Tucked on a hyacinth-dappled pond, the hotel consists of 46 chalets, each with teak furnishings and bamboo roofs.
"We are now celebrating the Buddhist Lent period," read a note accompanying a pair of earplugs on my nightstand. "Throughout the night you may hear the voices of monks praying."
The next morning, in a 30-foot longboat, with a young guide named U Min Min, I crossed the still waters of the lake. Inle was filled with fishing boats, propelled by oarsmen who balanced precariously on one leg, the other entwined around a paddle.
Following a network of canals, the boatman threaded through the narrow sluice gates in bamboo dams. We docked and hiked for a mile to a deserted scene. Here, like a child's version of Bagan, stood more than 200 small pagodas, constructed by the Pa-O people hundreds of years ago. The jungle had all but consumed them. Weeds crawled over ornate lintels. A palm tree sprouted umbrellalike from a pagoda.
"Asia lost in time," was the way the photographer and journalist Gary Knight recently described Myanmar to me; the fragile ruins of the pagodas almost literally illustrated his comment.
BACK on the boat, Mr. Min Min and I discussed recent events. Just one week before, the Shan State Army, which has been fighting for autonomy, signed a historic peace deal with the Myanmar government and agreed to help fight drug trafficking across the border into Thailand. It was, Mr. Min Min and I agreed, a sign of progress.
Still, I thought, as I watched the shores slip by, there was reason for caution. From the fawning headlines in local newspapers about various generals, to the handsome villas of the junta cronies near Yangon, to the cautious statements of Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, I was continually reminded that the new Myanmar remains a work in progress, and that, as a tourist, the debate over where to spend one's money remains relevant.
As for Mr. Min Min, he was pleased by the influx of visitors and the rise in his income, but was skeptical about recent developments, including the peace treaty.
"I don't think it will last," he said, as we made our way across Inle Lake.
If you are a conscientious traveler intent on avoiding travel-related companies owned by the Myanmar government or its business associates, a little advance work is required. Before leaving for Myanmar, I contacted a reliable travel agency, SunBird Tours in Yangon (104-106 52nd Street; 95-1 293464, firstname.lastname@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com) and asked it to put together an itinerary that would be as free of government influence as possible.
I immediately eliminated hotels like the Strand, a joint venture of the Myanmar government and a Singapore company. In some cases, like that of the Savoy Hotel in Yangon, ownership was not readily apparent. Those required phone calls to the establishment or, in this case, the hotel's marketing agent in Hamburg, Germany. The Savoy is owned by a Burmese woman with "no connection" to the government, I was assured. At the United States Department of the Treasury, the Office of Foreign Assets Control publishes a list of sanctioned individuals and companies that provides further clarification.
The German-managed Savoy Hotel (129 Dhammazadi Road, Yangon; 95-10 526289, 526298 and 526305; firstname.lastname@example.com) is well situated between Inya Lake (site of the United States Embassy and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's residence) and downtown. It's a charming hotel with 24 rooms and excellent service; the Captain's Bar in the lobby is one of Yangon's favored expatriate watering holes. Prices for a double begin at 91,981 kyat, or $110 at 836 kyat to the dollar.
Just across the Strand Road, right on the river, are my favorite restaurants in Yangon, the Golden Duck and the Junior Duck (95-1 249421, or 09-861-4554), serving excellent Chinese food at reasonable prices. Lunch or dinner for two costs 20,904 to 25,085 kyat.
In Bagan, I stayed at the Bagan Hotel River View (Near Museum, Old Bagan; 95-61 60316, 95-61 060317, 95-61 60032; email@example.com, email@example.com). The sprawling complex along the Irrawaddy River has 107 rooms from 58,533 to 91,981 kyat a night.
The best hotel at Inle Lake is the Inle Princess Resort, with 46 chalets on a pond on the eastern bank of the lake (Magyizin Village Inle Lake; 95-81 209055, 95-81 209363, 4 and 5; firstname.lastname@example.com). A chalet, booked through SunBirds, costs 137,972 kyat a night. There's a fine bar and restaurant serving both Burmese and European food, with alfresco dining on a porch overlooking the lake. Dinner for two, with wine, costs about 66,895 kyat.


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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Mitt Romney on Wednesday detailed his education proposals in a major policy address, laying out a plan to promote school choice and reform existing laws -- all while combating teachers' unions, whom Romney blamed for obstructing many of the needed changes in the nation's schools.
Talking to a Latino economic coalition, Mitt Romney says a good education and a healthy economy are two main issues he will on focus if elected president.
Romney assailed President Obama as beholden to powerful organized labor groups during a speech to the Latino Coalition here in the nation's capital.
In his speech, the former Massachusetts governor called improving public education "the civil rights issue of our era," saying that unions favor teachers' well being over students', leading to an education system that Romney said was "third-world" in nature.
"The teachers unions are the clearest example of a group that has lost its way. Whenever anyone dares to offer a new idea, the unions protest the loudest," Romney said, quoting a former leader of the American Federation of Teachers. "He said, and I quote, 'When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of children. The teachers unions don't fight for our children. That's our job.'"
Romney almost seem to draw on the experience of Govs. Scott Walker of Wisconsin and Chris Christie of New Jersey, each of whom have achieved a moderate amount of political traction by doing battle with teachers' unions in their respective states.
Antipathy between Romney and teachers' unions has deep roots, though, reaching back to Romney's tenure as governor in Massachusetts, when teachers' groups ran advertisements fighting Romney's implementation of a statewide test required for graduation. Romney mentioned the ad battle, which was not in his prepared remarks, and decried unions wielding "outsized influence in elections and campaigns."
"As president, I will be a champion of real education reform in America, and I won't let any special interest get in the way," Romney said. "We have to stop putting campaign cash ahead of our kids."
Obama has stressed the importance of working with unions, an important Democratic Party constituency, in his past efforts to pursue education reform. A top adviser of Romney's suggested, though, that Romney would work around the powerful teachers' groups in implementing his agenda.
"The opposition is going to be led by the teachers unions which of course have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo," senior Romney adviser Eric Fehnrstrom told reporters on a conference call. "We are not handcuffed at all by the political limitations faced by president Obama, who is completely beholden to the union leadership."
Romney's most ambitious effort would be to greatly expand school choice programs for disadvantaged students and their parents in a way similar to the capital's D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program. Romney's program would allow any low-income or special needs student (in the so-called Title One category) to attend any public or public charter school in their state, without regard to district.
"For the first time in history, federal education funds will be linked to the student, so that parents can send their child to any public or charter school of their choice," Romney said.
Romney told donors in April that he hoped to dramatically reshape -- but not eliminate -- the Department of Education, and also said Wednesday that he hopes to make the evaluation of schools and teachers a state responsibility, instead of a federal one, as it exists under President Bush's controversial No Child Left Behind law. Romney said that landmark law represented a "giant step forward," but was also "not without its weaknesses."
Romney advisers said before the speech that none of the presumptive GOP's proposals today would involve new federal spending.
There were some elements of the Romney plan, though, that were still wanting for details. His plans to improve teacher quality were ill-defined; Romney vowed to consolidate federal programs designed to boost teacher quality and block grant their funds -- about $4 billion dollars -- back to states that he asserted would adopt "innovative policies" for improving teacher quality.
And Romney only briefly touched upon his plans to increase the affordability of higher education, vowing to "stop fueling skyrocketing tuition prices," but providing no specifics in his speech as to how to accomplish such a task.
The Obama campaign savaged Romney's record on education before his speech had even been delivered, declaring Romney's views on education are just the latest example of a philosophy designed to help only those at the top.
"Mitt Romney's career in both the private and public sectors has been guided by one principle: helping the wealthiest prosper by any means necessary, even if it means undermining workers and middle class families. These are the values that he would bring to the White House and that would prioritize budget-busting tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans over good schools and affordable higher education," Obama campaign spokesperson Lis Smith said in a statement.

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AVANI Panorama River View Rooms offer the perfect space to relax, work and sleep in style. Stay connected with Wi-Fi access. Make yourself comfortable with a fully stocked mini bar. From high up, take in uninterrupted panoramic views over the Chao Phraya River and Bangkok's skyline. Enjoy essential convenience with our IPTV system. Sleep in stylish comfort and re-energise for a fresh new day. You are going to love the Panorama from the 21st floor and above.
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Relax and unwind at our lobby bar. Warm and contemporary, it's the perfect spot to unwind and connect with friends. Cool down from the heat with craft cocktails, wonderful wines and Asian brews.
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Our designer deli has everything to fill you up on the go. Artisan salads and sandwiches, cold pressed juices and more. Meet healthy comfort food at its finest. Grab a seat or bring it back to your room.
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From Sao Paulo to Lisbon and now the City of Angels, celebrity chef Olivier da Costa's sensual playground of cuisine and cocktails rises about the Chao Phraya. Dine on fused Brazilian and Portuguese flavors on the indoor-outdoor 26th floor. Move to Latin rhythms and mixologist concoctions at the city's newest 27th-floor rooftop bar.
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At AVANI+ Riverside Bangkok Hotel, we vow to make your big day perfect by taking care of all the details that matter. Whether you're looking for an intimate ceremony or an elaborate, multi-day celebration, we have a host of both indoor and outdoor venues and ballrooms and can help create the wedding you've always dreamed of.
Swimming Pool
Breathtakingly positioned on the 26th floor of the hotel the 25 meters infinity pool offers a view with a difference over Bangkok and the ultimate place to rest and unwind with a glass in hand after a hectic day exploring Bangkok. Swim laps or simply float peacefully. Lounge on the pool deck or savor a cocktail at sunset.
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You can arrange easy airport transfers to AVANI+ Riverside Bangkok Hotel. Our airport representative will meet you at arrival Gate 5 and whisk you directly to the hotel. Via a Mercedes Benz E-Class 350, Mercedes Benz Vito, Limousine service, Public taxis are also available from the pick-up stand at the airport.
To take public transportation to the hotel, take the Airport Rail Link and connect to the BTS Skytrain. Exit at Saphan Taksin and board our complimentary shuttle boat.
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On top of his music, it appears that Chicago wordsmith Lupe Fiasco has found himself another focus, and it has to do with the health and wellness of others. According to HipHop-n-More.com, Lupe has partnered with Wrapports chairman Michael Ferro to create a new App called Higi.
Similar to Klout, a social media analytics App that was launched in 2009, Higi factors in three different aspects of one's life to give its users a unique numeric score.
"It's called Higi. It's basically a score. And it's a score based off of three different things," said Lupe. "It's based off of your body initially. Your weight, your blood pressure, your height, all your biometrics, your pulse, your body mass index. Then it takes into account your lifestyle. How active you are, how much you work out, etc. It takes advantage of things like the information that you get from the Nike fit bands, all those things that you work out with. Measure it. It kind of takes that information as well. Then it takes into consideration how active you are on social media. So Facebook, Twitter…It takes all those three things together and it calculates this score. So Higi is an algorithm basically at the end of the day."
Lupe further went on to explain the scoring system on Higi which maxes out at 999 and shared the details on Higi's exclusive Nine-Hundred Club.
"You get scored from between 400 and 999. Once you get into the nine's, the highest you can get is 999, once you get into the nine's you get inducted into something called the Nine-Hundred Club. It opens you up to all these different awards. It's like a social credit score, but that you control. That you control on a daily basis," Lupe explained.
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Wednesday, 28 July 2010
Shu Uemura Egerie Eye Shimmer Duo
I bought the duo in Glint Blue (£29), which consists of a sparkling metallic brown/taupe liquid shadow, and a sparkling pastel blue loose powder.
The liquid shadow comes packaged in a squeezable tube; you get a lot of product here especially considering you only need a tiny amount each time. The powder shadows is packaged in a tube with a sponge applicator .
Swatch L-R:Liquid,powder and liquid with powder on top.
The liquid shadow dries amazingly fast and goes on smooth, the colour applies very even. I got no creasing and it didn't budge or fade all day. I do however find it feels a bit drying, not so much to be uncomfortable but you can feel its there if you get what I mean.
In terms of the powder, I didn't get fall out during the day but the colour is quite sheer so I feel it's better used on top of the liquid rather than alone.
Picture below of liquid Shadow and a touch of powder dusted on top
I really like the colours and, slight dryness aside, I am really impressed by the texture and wear of the liquid shadow, however I do feel that the finish is just too shiny/metallic for me. Perhaps its because I'm the wrong side of 30 but I am finding that more shimmery/frosty, metallic shades don't quite look right on me anymore, somewhat out of place and a bit harsh, shame really as I really like this, just not on me!
I bought this from beautyexpert.co.uk
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- Anonymous28 July 2010 at 12:53
Liquid eyeshadow in a tube! That sounds intriguing. I'd love to try this - the colour is pretty and looks great on you, it doesn't look too young or immature!ReplyDelete
For what it's worth, I think this combo looks stunning on your eyes...ReplyDelete
Of course I understand that you must feel confident and comfortable in the mu you choose to wear, and that' subject to very personal considerations. Having said that, I still think it's gorgeous on you :-)
Nina x
What do you mean, wrong side of 30??? Don't you know 30 is the new 20?? This looks amazing, I wish I lived near you so you could work your magic on my eyes, you are always so skilled at applying eyeshadow! I was really tempted by this when I was trying to decide what to spend my Beauty Expert loyalty voucher on...got something else instead, also by Shu...hell, I'm so behind in my reviews! xxReplyDelete
Hi Cafe Bellini,ReplyDelete
Thanks,I think if you like shimmer they are well worth trying, there are also two other colour combos they have, one looked rather pastel though.
Hello Nina,
Thanks so much,still not too sure though, although I have been wearing near mattes a lot recently so maybe it was a bit too much of a contraste! On another note are you going to get any of the Guerlain fall stuff, my list keeps growing... x
Hello Anna,
New 20, sure don't feel like it, I'll probably have a flip out when I'm nearing 40!
If we lived near each other we would have no money as it would all be spent on the pretty makeup. I am so unskilled at applying eyeshadow but I'll take your compliment anyhow, thanks ;) Loyalty voucher,augh, I want one! Yes, you must have lots of reviews to do, you still have that Becca palette I got, to do I think ? x
This looks amazing on you! Such a beautiful layering on colours. Lovely xReplyDelete
Thanks Jane, actually I can see this working really well on you, I think I'll have to try it a bit more after these nice comments xReplyDelete
You should, it's really lovely. I know relatively little about Shu Uemura products. I think I need to investigate a bit more :) xReplyDelete


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Angels beat Indians 7-1, extending skid to 6
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — One of the keys to C.J. Wilson's success over the years has been ignoring big leads when he gets them. The approach worked in a big way on Wednesday night.
Wilson pitched two-hit ball over eight innings, Hank Conger hit a go-ahead, two-run homer off Zach McAllister, and the Los Angeles Angels beat Cleveland 7-1 to send the Indians to their sixth straight loss.
"I try to hold the other team down so that there's no momentum," Wilson said. "I think a lot of guys fall into the trap of thinking in the fourth inning: 'Hey, this game is over, so I'm going to cruise from here.'
"You see it happen, and we do that to teams all the time. I mean, we'll be down 4-1 and then all of a sudden, we get a rally going and it's boom, boom, boom. That's the way our offense is capable of being. So you've got to take every pitch seriously and every at-bat seriously."
The Angels have scored seven or more runs in each of Wilson's victories, and fewer than four in both losses. Wilson (4-2) struck out eight, walked one and retired his last 18 batters after a leadoff double in the third by No. 9 hitter Elliot Johnson.
Cleveland's other hit against the left-hander was an RBI single in the second by David Murphy, who was thrown out trying to steal for the inning's final out.
"Mechanically, I got into a little more of a groove as the game went on," Wilson said. "The first couple of batters I felt good, but the ball was sailing on me a little bit. Then as I got more into the flow of the game, I was able to keep the ball in the strike zone more often and tried to expand later in the count when I had the advantage."
Wilson recorded only two of his outs during his final five innings on balls to the outfield, including a sensational diving grab by left fielder J.B. Shuck on a drive toward the corner by Mike Aviles.
"He was very effective with different fastballs — cutting it, changing speeds with it, then throwing the breaking ball off of that," Cleveland manager Terry Francona said. "He was so aggressive in the zone, working ahead — just attacking."
David Freese had a two-run single in the fifth against Marc Rzepczynski, and Mike Trout added a two-run double in the sixth off demoted starter Carlos Carrasco. Cleveland's bullpen entered having stranded 42 of 46 inherited runners, the best percentage in the majors.
McAllister (3-2) threw 101 pitches over 4 1-3 innings and was charged with five runs, four hits and four walks. Pitching on three days' rest for the first time in the big leagues after throwing 75 pitches over five innings in a 5-3 loss at San Francisco on Saturday, McAllister was bumped up in the rotation after Carrasco went 0-3 with a 6.95 ERA in four starts.
"I didn't have the command I would have liked, and I went deep into some at-bats that really pushed my pitch count up," McAllister said. "I made a lot of pitches early and walked some guys. But as far as the way my body felt and my arm felt, I felt extremely good out there."
Cleveland, which heads home to host the Chicago White Sox, was swept in consecutive series for the first time since last June at the New York Yankees and Detroit. The Indians totaled just 13 runs during the six-game trip, batting .183 and going 6 for 36 with runners in scoring position.
"We had a tough trip, and we have to put it behind us," Francona said. "Not a lot went right for us on this trip. Now we have to go fix it, and we'll do that."
Cleveland opened the scoring in the second with Murphy's two-out single. Conger's homer put the Angels ahead in the second, ending McAllister's streak of 37 1-3 homerless innings since Houston's Brandon Laird connected Sept. 20.
Albert Pujols made it 3-1 in the third with a sacrifice fly to center fielder Michael Bourn, who had no chance to make a play on Howie Kendrick at the plate after Aviles banged into him.
NOTES: Johnson started at 2B for the Indians in place of Jason Kipnis, who left Tuesday night's game because of a strained abdominal muscle. "There's no rush to put a guy on the DL. We can handle it. We'll just kind of see how he responds," Francona said. ... All 15 big league homers by the switch-hitting Conger have been against right-handed pitchers, and nine of them have come with at least one man on base. ... The Angels didn't fly their 2002 World Series championship banner, their eight division title flags or the California state flag because of fierce Santa Ana winds, which were clocked at 27 mph at gametime.


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Augustana Announces New Faculty Members
As Augustana officially opens the 2012-13 academic year, the College also welcomes the following new full time faculty members:
Dr. Lisa Baye, biology lab instructor/lab coordinator
Dr. Baye holds a bachelor's degree from the University of St. Thomas and a Ph.D. from the Medical College of Wisconsin, where she studied in the Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy. As a post-doctoral scholar at the University of Iowa, she worked on "Elucidating the molecular pathways underlying human blindness and ciliopathy diseases in the zebrafish model."
Kim Dobson, assistant professor, education
Ms. Dobson holds a bachelor's degree from Augustana College and a master's degree in educational leadership from Southwest Minnesota State University. She has more than 21 years of special education teaching experience, both in the Sioux Falls School District and at Augustana, where she has taught the SPED 330 course, "Educating Children with Cognitive Impairments."
Dr. Nathan Grau, assistant professor, physics
Specializing in nuclear and particle physics, Dr. Grau is a member of the PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory and is a past member of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Dr. Grau earned his bachelor's degree from Millikin University and holds a Ph.D. from Iowa State University. More recently, he served as a post-doctoral fellow at Columbia University's Nevis Laboratories, where he also served as an adjunct faculty member in the physics department. Dr. Grau has taught Modern Physics, Astronomy, Thermal and Statistical Physics, Atoms to Stars, and introductory programming courses. Since 2010, he has served as a visiting assistant professor for the Department of Physics at Augustana.
Dr. Landon Karr, assistant professor, art and anthropology
Dr. Karr holds a bachelor's degree from Augustana and a Ph.D. in archaeology from the University of Exeter. Following his undergraduate studies, he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in the municipality of Guajiquiro, La Paz, Honduras. As a postgraduate research student, he served as a graduate teaching assistant in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Exeter.
Dr. Lindsay Laurich, assistant professor, education
Dr. Laurich holds a bachelor's degree from Saint Mary's University, a master's degree in developmental reading from the University of Iowa, and a Ph.D. in language, literacy and culture from the University of Iowa. Her research interests include reading instruction, teacher development, process writing, digital literacy, discourse analysis, and identity and literacy. Her teaching interests include reading methods, children and adolescent literature, language arts methods, socio-cultural contexts and learning, adolescent and adult reading, and inquiry-based teaching. Most recently, she served as a teaching assistant in the College of Education's Department of Teaching and Learning at the University of Iowa.
Dr. Paul Nesheim, associate professor of music and director of The Augustana Choir
Dr. Nesheim earned his bachelor's degree from St. Olaf College (music education major); a Master of Music degree in choral music from Arizona State University; and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in conducting from the University of Arizona. He most recently served as associate professor of music and director of choral activities at Minnesota State University Moorhead, where he conducted three choirs and taught choral conducting. He also served as artistic director of the Fargo-Moorhead Chamber Chorale and the conductor of the Senior Choir at the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Moorhead.
Dr. Janet Philipp, professor and chair, Nursing Department
Dr. Philipp is a graduate of the Capital City School of Nursing and holds bachelor's degrees in psychology and nursing from the University of Dubuque. She earned her master's degree in Family and Community Health Nursing from Creighton University and holds her Ed.D. in Higher Education Administration from the University of South Dakota. Most recently, she served as chair for the Division for Health Professions and director of the Ed.D. program for the College of Saint Mary. Prior to that, she served as president for Dana College from 2005-2010.
Dr. Steve Schultz, assistant professor, chemistry
Dr. Schultz holds a bachelor's degree from Carleton College and a Ph.D. in chemistry/biochemistry from the California Institute of Technology. He completed his post-doctorate work at Yale University and received his M.P.A. in Public Affairs from the University of Minnesota. Most recently, he served as a chemistry instructor at Minnesota West Community and Technical College. From 1991 to 2000, he served as an associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Dr. Leigh Vicens, assistant professor, philosophy
Dr. Vicens holds a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College, a master's degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, a master's of divinity degree from Virginia Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Dr. Vicens' areas of specialization include philosophy of religion, philosophy of the mind and philosophy of action. As a teaching assistant at the University of Wisconsin, she taught "Philosophy of Religion," "History of Modern Philosophy," "Introductory Ethics," and "Contemporary Moral Issues." As a teaching assistant at Virginia Theological Seminary, she taught "Christian Ethics" and "Anglican Thought."
Dr. Seasson Vitiello, assistant professor, biology
Dr. Vitiello earned her bachelor's degree from Nazareth College. She completed her Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, followed by a post-doctoral research fellowship there and at Sanford Research/USD. Dr. Vitiello teaches Genetics, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Cell Signaling. Since 2010, she has served as a visiting assistant professor for the Department of Biology at Augustana. Her research focuses on using yeast molecular genetics to study cystinosis, a pediatric lysosomal storage disorder. Previously, she served as co-director of the Sanford Program for Undergraduate Research (SPUR), a training program designed to introduce undergraduate students to graduate school, with a focus on those from socio-economically challenged backgrounds.
Dr. Emily Wanless, assistant professor, government and international affairs/political science
Dr. Wanless earned her bachelor's degree from Clemson University (political science major) and her master's degree in political science from the University of Montana. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Georgia. Dr. Wanless' teaching and research interests include American politics, institutions and elections. Most recently, she served as an adjunct faculty member for the University of Georgia's Department of Political Science, School of Public and International Affairs.
"Working alongside our current exceptional faculty members, these new teacher-scholars will help Augustana advance its mission to provide an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world. We are excited and honored to have these talented and inspiring individuals on our team," said Dr. Susan Hasseler, senior vice president for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College.
Front row (seated), left to right: Paul Nesheim, Janet Philipp, Landon Karr, Leigh Vicens, Kim Dobson.
Back row, left to right: Steve Schultz, Nathan Grau, Lindsay Laurich, Emily Wanless.


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What's shakin'?: Essential tremors wreak havoc
During my first year in medical residency in Los Angeles, we experienced an earthquake that rocked my world. Well, actually at the time I was visiting my significant other at UVA, but when I returned to LA, I had the unfortunate thrill of experiencing after-shocks. (I always thought "after-shocks" occurred in family situations, like finally realizing your parents disowned you after being in denial for a few days.)
I was talking to a nurse in the LA clinic, and suddenly it looked like the nurse was dancing to KC & The Sunshine Band's "Shake Your Booty." Before I knew it, I was shaking along with her– and the whole clinic! Is that what having a tremor disorder is like?
There are many types of tremors. One of the most common types is Essential Tremor (ET– not to be confused with Steven Spielberg's cute little alien friend). About 10 percent of Americans have ET. Look at Katherine Hepburn– poor thing. She not only shook her own body but Spencer Tracy's world. ET has been called "Familial Tremor," but only 50 percent of people with ET have a close relative with the tremor. (Another case of being disowned?)
The incidence of ET increases with age, though if inherited from a family member, it can occur at an earlier age. ET can be very distressing to a person who relies on steady hands: surgeons, artists, manicurists, pick-pockets. A fine tremor occurs in ET; it's due to contracting flexor and extensor muscles affected by an unknown neurological problem.
The tremor occurs at rest and is usually worse with action, like shaving (ouch!), sewing (oops!), slicing foods (band aid!), and putting on mascara (doh!). The tremor is always there, but is worst when the movement is just about done– such as putting a key into the lock. You get the key to the hole, but then the shakiness makes it difficult to insert it easily.
The head is usually affected as well, which is why I hate seeing those celebrity bobbing head toys in people's cars. I think Ozzy Osbourne made millions on his bobbing head, unlike Lorena Bobbitt. The head can bob up and down like a "yes-yes" motion (very optimistic), or tremble side to side like a "no-no" motion (very pessimistic). A Queen would lose her crown. The head bobbing doesn't bother the person physically as much as the way it looks.
The voice can quiver like Belinda Carlisle singing, "I Get We-e-e-e-a-a-a-k." The chin can jitter like Tammy Faye crying with Jim Bakker in the '80s; legs can tremble like Elvis Presley's did. And the trunk of the body sometimes shudders like we did when we saw pictures of Liz Taylor with Michael Jackson at Liza's wedding. Chilling!
ET gets worse with stimulants and better with relaxants. Caffeine, decongestants, steroids, and albuterol (for asthma) can make a person with ET look like a person being electrocuted. Red Bull, anyone? Stress and anxiety can make signing divorce papers seem like making papier-mache. On the other hand, alcohol or valium can quiet a tremor– not that I am advocating that. You might be able to get the car keys into the lock, but then you're not sober enough to drive!
Beta blockers are not fraternity bullies. Beta blockers are a class of medicines that have been shown to be very effective in reducing tremors in ET. Propranolol is most often used, but it also slows down your heartbeat, which can be a problem. Also, an asthmatic can feel like they're breathing through a straw when they're on beta blockers.
There are other options to treat and deal with essential tremors. Just don't shake your baby, don't drink too many fattening milk shakes, shake a leg, and when you meet your opponent: shake.
Got a medical question? Dr. Hook wants to hear from you!


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8 Grilled Cheeses in America We Love
What makes a perfect grilled cheese? We've thought about this a lot. Probably too much. The bread should be crisp with enough butter involved, but not so greasy that you need a stack of napkins after. The center should be melty, creamy, salty, a tad tangy, but not too complicated or toppings-crazy. It's a grilled cheese. It's one of the first stovetop meals many of us can claim we made all by ourselves as kids.
So without further ado, the Serious Eats Grilled Cheese Honor Roll. This honor roll doesn't discriminate between basic and fancypants grilled cheese sandwiches, as long as it's irresistibly delicious. This is just a short list, so please chime in with any we left out.
We also realize that paying north of five bucks for bread and melted cheese can be silly, so here are our favorite recipes for grilled cheese-making at home.
The SE Grilled Cheese Honor Roll
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I would like to know if anyone got webmin running because I tried everying and nothing works:
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# /etc/init.d/webmin start|stop|restart
bash: stop: command not found
bash: restart: command not found
* WARNING: webmin is already starting
# rc-update add webmin default
* rc-update: webmin already installed in runlevel `default'; skipping
# /etc/init.d/webmin start
* WARNING: webmin is already starting
# /etc/init.d/webmin stop
* ERROR: webmin stopped by something else
# /etc/init.d/webmin restart
* WARNING: webmin is already starting
# /etc/init.d/webmin status
* You are attempting to run an openrc service on a
* system which openrc did not boot.
* You may be inside a chroot or you may have used
* another initialization system to boot this system.
* In this situation, you will get unpredictable results!
* If you really want to do this, issue the following command:
* touch /run/openrc/softlevel


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Aion Free-to-Play
Changes to housing implemented with Aion update 3.0
NCsoft and Gameforge have released some extra details regarding update 3.0 for Aion free-to-play, starting with the MMO's housing areas which will be influenced by the seasons.
Aion Free-to-Play headlines
Aion goes free-to-play in Europe on February 28
Aion will go free-to-play on February 28 in Europe, it's been announced. The change-over will occur simultaneously for the English, French, and German language versions.
Aion Free-to-Play preparations underway
Head on over to the Aion Free-to-Play website, and you can pre-load the new client, sign up for the beta, and study up and what you'll need to do to transition your account smoothly to Gameforge's new servers. The MMORPG's European servers make the switch in February, but in the US, the game remains subscription-based.Thanks, […]


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[1] For example, if well managed, group projects promote various interpersonal skills that are relevant to the workplace. However, they are not necessarily a good way of developing a wide knowledge base in a large number of students in a short period of time. Generally, the promotion of 'transferable' skills is time-consuming and may draw resources away from more traditional teaching objectives.
[2] The LTSN has published a briefing paper targeted at heads of department, focusing on 'assessment strategies, why they are important and how to develop them' (Mutch and Brown, 2001).
[3] In evaluating assessment, focus is placed on its 'validity' – the relationship between assessment and the desired learning outcomes. Assessment should also be evaluated on its reliability (consistency of marks, etc.) and practicality (time, cost and legitimacy).
[4] The concept of summative assessment is discussed in section 1.3.
[5] Adapted from Figure 1 on p. 5 of Mutch and Brown (2001).
[6] Readers should consult other material for ideas on project tasks (see projects, literature reviews).
[7] A case study of peer-group assessment in macro dynamics is discussed in Davies et al. (2000, ch. 4).
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The Best Solo Artists Who Used to Front a Band
List Rules Only musicians who were the lead singers of other bands. Rank them on their solo careers.
Music groups, no matter how successful they may become, tend to have an expiration date. When a rock band or rap group eventually breaks up, not too many of its members go on to have solo success. This list, however, celebrates that small group of musicians who have managed to break out as a solo artist and reach the top on their own. From Sting to Stevie Nicks, every musician on this list are solo artists who used to front a band.
Icons like Neil Young, Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, Joan Jett and Ozzy Osbourne are great examples of musicians who had success with an earlier outfit but continued on to achieve success on their own as well. All of these artists have been critically and commercially lauded for their solo work and sometimes, their solo material is greater and more popular than the output they had with their original band. The aforementioned artists are great examples of this.
There are plenty of great solo singers on this list who had varying degrees of success with their first band or group or collective. But, we're trying to measure who had the best solo career, not overall career. That's why the frontmen or frontwomen on this list should be judged primarily on their solo careers.This is the list of the best solo artists who used to front a band. If you notice someone is missing from the list, feel free to add him or her as you deem fit. Vote or re-rank this list according to the artist's solo career only.


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New York, NY - Head to the wonderful Picture Farm Gallery in south Williamsburg tomorrow evening to see artist Paola Citterio's brilliantly intriguing, thought-provoking works. Go for the art and stay for the party — take it from Italians on how to make the most of a night out!
About the Artist
Paola Citterio is an Italian, Brooklyn-based artist who works with natural wool fiber, using simple traditional techniques like needle felting and hand-knotted rugs as her canvas. The trance-like process involved in creating teh work--the dyeing, cutting, and knotting, and the constant repetition of gesture--often takes weeks. "People think that I am crazy," says Citterio, "to spend so much time. But I find it quietly exhilirating. I enjoy getting lost."
Picture Farm Gallery
338 Wythe Ave
New York, NY 11211
between 4th St & 2nd St in Williamsburg


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Today's Dressed Behavior is all about Kate Middleton as she dazzled at The Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Kate accompanied the royal family as they celebrated the Queen — in her most chic enembles to date.
Kate first stopped traffic on the Thames in a scarlet, custom McQueen. She opted for a muted, lace sheath at the service of Thanksgiving at St. Paul's Cathedral. Both frocks were accessorized with perfectly coordinating hats and clutches. And how would Kate be without her signature LK Bennett, nude pumps. I don't know – I think we need to get the princess in a pair of "Red Bottoms!" On second thought, I kind of like the idea that she remains COMPLETELY classic.
What are your thoughts?  Could the new Princess spice it up a bit?


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The Naval Postgraduate School's (NPS) Distributed Information Systems Experimentation (DISE) research group recently completed an ambitious series of experiments at Naval Air Weapons Station (NAWS) China Lake designed to create a mobile Internet architecture that facilitates defense command and control (C2) requirements as well as Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) dissemination.
The project, dubbed Beyond Line of Sight Command and Control (BLOS C2), seeks to create a self-healing, self-forming network with Type I encryption and anti-jamming capabilities that can survive in satellite denied environments.
"The BLOS C2 architecture was designed to satisfy a Centcom [U.S. Central Command] capability gap in support of NAVCENT [U.S Naval Forces Central Command] force protection threats as well as a multi-service Centcom contingency plan," said BLOS C2 Principal Investigator (PI) and architect, retired U.S. Navy Capt. Bill Roeting.
Roeting has worked for the last eight years to establish a high-bandwidth networking capability to generate a common tactical picture (CTP) as well as bi-directional C2 for special operations forces, joint tactical air controllers and other ground forces.
"This is the last mile in completing Vice Adm. Cebrowski's vision for a network centric battlefield," said Roeting. "The BLOS C2 architecture will get the U.S. military one step closer."
Roeting's solution to the beyond line of sight command and control problem utilizes Common Data Link (CDL) radios already in the Department of Defense' inventory.
"CDL radios have the ability to be used as a platform to send data to other CDL radios, each radio becomes a node in the BLOS C2 network," said NPS Department of Information Sciences Research Associate Professor Shelly Gallup.
But in order for the CDL radios to behave as desired, a software modification had to be made to make the CDL radios bi-directional and fully network capable.
CDL radios are generally limited to one-way, point-to-point data links, but DISE researchers demonstrated that CDL radios can be used to provide a high bandwidth, bi-directional network by creating a hub and spoke network architecture suitable to supporting full motion video (FMV), Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), chat, and enhanced still imagery.
"There were a lot of skeptics that said it could not be done, but we did it," said retired Navy Capt. Jack Jensen, an analyst with DISE. "We got the equipment into manned and unmanned platforms and it worked."
In order to extend the CDL driven network, DISE researchers worked with the Air Force Life Cycle Material Command who developed the Tactical Pod (TACPod) – a communications and networking gateway designed to be carried on an MQ-9 Reaper.
"We are using MQ-9 Reapers, an unmanned air system (UAS), with a tactical pod which acts as a kind of airborne relay for imagery and video and allows for distributed users to pass information back and forth," said Gallup.
DISE researchers are also using U2, MQ-9 and Harrier aircraft as well as vehicle and command center mounted delivery platforms and intend to use an Air Force Advanced Targeting Pod (ATP) in future applications.
According to Roeting, the China Lake and Palmdale experiments proved that the various delivery systems were capable of relaying and converting data and imagery between aircraft, ships and Mission Operations Centers (MOC), potentially enhancing access to critical mission information, imagery, and data.
"BLOS C2 will allow for air-to-air, air-to-ground and air-to-surface movement of real-time, bi-directional FMV [full-motion video] as well as collaborative command and control," said NPS Research Associate Joe Utschig.
"We also conducted a successful test of the Navy BLOS Data Link (NBDL) terminal and a Rover 6 tactical radio to a U2 aircraft using the U-2's Dragon Fly architecture," continued Utschig.
Despite the myriad acronyms and the seemingly futuristic hardware and software, DISE researchers insist that their goal is a straightforward solution to an often-difficult problem.
"What we are trying to do is allow the Mission Operations Center (MOC) to see anything that is going on in their theatre," said Gallup.
To make their vision a reality, DISE researchers at China Lake leveraged the Joint Battlespace Awareness ISR Integration Capability (JBAIIC) ISR Test Bed, a collection of trailers and vehicles that serve as a Network and Tactical Operations Center with both classified and unclassified networks as well as commercial and military radios, and sensors.
From their vantage point at China Lake, DISE members were able to assess the BLOS C2 technology as well as the military utility of the overall architecture.
"We also completed the first tactical, IP-based use of the U2 within the BLOS C2 architecture and we successfully completed the TACPod contractor and government developmental tests. All components of the TACPod were tested at short and long range along with their ancillary components," said Utschig.
Despite these successes, work continues.
"We are testing different configurations of the systems and range limits for transmitting images, procedures and hardware. We are also looking at the engineering design parameters to see if they meet the requirements prepared in [our sponsors] requirement documents," said Gallup.
The BLOS C2 program is indicative of the DISE approach. DISE focuses on enhancing new or existing technologies in an effort to increase capability and decrease cost while meeting mission requirements.
"We are looking at gaps in capability within the Department of Defense and seeing what is already in the inventory that can be used to close that gap," said Jensen. "DISE performs a very interesting service for the DOD and the Navy … The taxpayers get good value out of what we do while supporting NPS'"
"We also support NPS' mission by exposing our students to cutting edge technology and providing them with real-world thesis opportunities that support the warfighter," said DISE Research Assistant Sharon McNally.
The modification of existing infrastructures to enhance capability is not a new acquisition strategy, but, DISE's research approach, coupled with field experimentation and analysis, has reduced in-theater delivery and implementation times while avoiding the costly development, acquisition and testing necessary to field new equipment.
"Actual numbers have not been quantified, but when you look at the cost of developing and acquiring new equipment, our approach to BLOS C2 will potentially save many millions of dollars and 5-10 years of research," said Jensen.


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I useually start shopping on an occassional basis in July - next month!!!
I useually start shopping on an occassional basis in July - next month!!!
I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas
Hi all!, Well no I haven't really planned anything for Christmas as yet but today here in the UK! it's all grey and gloomy and dark and cold and really windy! and it's absolutely freezing!... so today I have been thinking of a few Christmas ideas and pressies all over in my head!!!.... whilst all snuggled up on the sofa with a blanket/throw over wrap around me! Oh gosh I'm SO Excited!!!!! xxxxxx
Just brought myself a sewing machine and going to be attempting to make some Christmas sock monkeys
I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas
I haven't done much in the way of actual decorations but I went to my local Bath&Body Works (candles, room fragrances, and body care) and picked up a bunch of their refills for a scent diffuser. A lot of them are more autumn themed, but I did pick up a couple of Gingerbread scented ones I'm going to hold onto for after Thanksgiving. This year is going to be the first year I get a real tree in my bedroom. It's possibly going to be smaller than my fake tree but I'll get the genuine real tree smell!
"It isn't the holly, it isn't the snow. It isn't the tree, not the firelight's glow. It's the warmth that comes to the hearts of men then the Christmas spirit returns again." - Unknown
I have seen the Autumn collection for Yankee candle so i got really excited about that...oh the simple things
Yes, I've somewhat started. I always start to get the itch around this time of year (I know, it's early). I just can't help myself. I'm always looking for new Christmas decor and recipes. I bought a new ornament last month.


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Video – Nickelback – Burn It To The Ground
Nickelback's latest album, Dark Horse has been out for a year and half now, and yet the band is still releasing videos and singles from the CD. One of my favorite songs off of the album is "Burn It To the Ground". Like them or hate them, you have to admit, "Burn It To the Ground" is a pretty good song. Check it out in the video clip below.Vodpod videos no longer available.
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Arena Technicals 5-30-2013
Volume is critical. I use the 200 day average volume as my baseline. Moves on heavy volume (above the 200 day average) have strength. A move on weak volume lacks conviction. We want to see the equity pass key support and resistance points on heavy volume. We want to see what the volume is when the equity nears support and resistsnce points. EMA's also act as support and gauge sentiment well.
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Support and Resistance
Self explanitory. For tomorrow watch for strength of support at $8.90. There is a sentimental resistance at $9.00. If volume is high and this equity passes $9.00 it can move to $9.25 with relative ease.
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Exponential Moving Averages
The EMA's are all bullish. Caution flags will appear if the price of one EMA dips below the next. Warning flags appear when an average passes below the next. If anyone has a question please feel free to ask.
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Racine man credits hot chocolate with saving his life at Boston Marathon
A split-second decision to head to a Boston coffee show may have saved a Racine County man's life.
Therese Kern ran in the race Monday. She finished about 10 minutes before the pair of explosions went off. But her husband narrowly missed being in the very spot where one of the bombs exploded.
"I went to that spot," Joseph Kern said of one of the bomb locations. "I stood there for over 20 minutes trying to fight my way to the front and I couldn't move through the people."
While fighting the crowds, he remembered his wife wanted a hot chocolate when she finished, so he left and went to a coffee shop.
A short time later, he heard a blast from where he once stood.
"Someone said they were bombs that blew up by the finish line," he said. "That got really scary."
"The bombs went off and I saw the poofs of smoke," she said. "It was just chaotic."
Therese did not have a phone on her, so Joseph could not communicate to her that he was safe.
After 30 minutes of walking through the crowds, he heard her voice and they were reunited amongst the chaos.
The Kerns got off a plane in Milwaukee Tuesday, and were happy to be back in Wisconsin.
"It was very scary," she said. "It's just good to be back home."


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Skills Required to Write Basic Reports
The developer skills required to write reports tend to fall on the database side. In general one should have:
- A good, solid understanding of SQL and PL/PGSQL in a PostgreSQL environment. This is the single most important skill and it is where most of the reporting effort lies.
- Basic understanding of Perl syntax. Any basic tutorial will do.
- A basic understanding of Moose. A general understanding of the documentation is sufficient, along with existing examples.
- A very basic understanding of the LedgerSMB reporting framework as discussed in this series.
Skills Required to Write More Advanced Reports
For more advanced reports, such as new financial statements, government forms, and the like, the following skills are required. These are not fully discussed here. These typically require, additionally:
- An in-depth understanding of our HTML elements abstraction system (this will be discussed in a future post here)
- A general proficiency with Template Toolkit, possibly including the LaTeX filter for running portions of the template through a LaTeX filter.
The reporting framework here is very database-centric. In general you cannot have a non-database-centric reporting structure because the data resides in the database, and some knowledge there is required to get it out in a working form. We have tried hard to make a system where only minimal knowledge elsewhere is required to do this. If you have db folks who work with your finance folks, they can write the reports.
Ad hoc reporting is outside the scope of this reporting. A one-off report is unlikely to be particularly helpful. Additionally this generates reports as documents that can be shared. Updating the data requires running the report again, and while this can be done as a sharable URL, it is not necessarily ideal for all circumstances.
Other Reporting Options
In cases where this reporting framework is not ideal, there are a number of other options available:
- Views can be made which can be pulled in via ODBC into spreadsheets like Excel.
- Third party report engines like JasperReports can be used instead, and
- One-off SQL queries in PSQL can be used to generate HTML and (in the most recent versions) LaTeX documents that can be shared.


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Beauty and the Bro – Mel Parsons and James Nokise AOTNZ tour Sep 2014
Take an acclaimed folk singer and a celebrated Samoan/Welsh comic, and be rewarded with an evening of music and comedy like no other. Mel Parsons and James Nokise combine their considerable talents to bring you their intimate live cabaret show, 'Beauty and the Bro'.
Nokise has returned from the UK stand-up comedy circuit to perform 'Soso Gangsta', his hilarious and slightly true take on New Zealand gang culture. Parsons will be presenting new work, plus a variety of songs from her first two albums – ranging from rollicking country numbers to heartfelt ballads, and accompanied by multi-instrumentalist, Gerry Paul (Grada, Tim O'Brien).
"Parsons has a voice that could work any night in Nashville, yet sounds somehow intrinsically New Zealand – and the songs are good, very good." –Black Magazine
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On a slight tangent, I just looked up how 'bamboo fibre' clothing is made. It's viscose. It just happens to be made using bamboo as a feedstock. I don't see how it'll be any different from any other viscose, & it still uses tons of caustic soda.
I was having difficulty imagining how coconut fibre - coir - could possibly be comfortable, but the site says it's "Cocona" which is carbonised coconut fibre combined with a synthetic yarn. They don't say in what proportions...
I have a pair of bamboo socks which were a gift.
MECO BASELAYERSThese baselayers make best use of 100% merino wool mixed with recycled polyester with Cocona technology in a 65%/35% mix. This produces a fabric that offers all the benefits of merino wool but that dries up to 5 times faster than 100% merino wool.
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Today I am finally getting around to the review of the first chapter as promised. I talked about the book a bit in the first post on the subject, which can be found here. This book was written by Alex Kuznetsov (blog).
In this chapter, Alex discusses some basic defensive programming techniques. That, in fact, is essentially the name of the chapter. This is a pretty lengthy chapter – and with good reason. Alex is laying the groundwork in this chapter with some basic samples and pretty much giving an introduction to the book. The code samples are straight forward and designed to illustrate his point quite well.
During my current reading, a good takeaway from this chapter is the discussion on Rowcount. For me, it serves as a prime reminder of the deprecation status as of SQL Server 2008. If you are using SET ROWCOUNT, stop and change your practices. Alex suggests using TOP in lieu of SET ROWCOUNT.
With each case that Alex presents as a potential problem when building your SQL code, he offers up a solution on how to avoid that problem. The composition of using problems and providing solutions is quite handy.
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I decided to spend this summer working through exercises in Hartshorne, and I found myself frustrated by the way I was solving one of them, specifically IV.2.3 on pp. 304-305. No, I'm not asking for a solution to the problem --- I almost have the whole thing solved, as far as I can tell --- what worries me is that I think I'm thinking about this stuff the wrong way.
The problem is about the map from a projective plane curve in characteristic 0 to its dual curve, and it has 8 parts, which ask you to prove things like the fact that bitangents on the original curve correspond to nodes on the dual. I managed to solve all of them except the one about ordinary inflection points on X giving ordinary cusps on X*, but all my solutions involved picking affine charts, finding an ugly formula for the map in question, and computing first and second partial derivatives, and it's all very long and messy and doesn't give any clue as to what's going on until you get to the end and see that the thing you have is 0 or whatever if and only if the condition in the problem is met for some magical reason.
I feel like there must be a more "high-brow" way to approach this object, and the fact that I haven't been able to come up with one seems to speak to the sort of backward way I've been learning about the subject (I just took a class that was very good and covered a lot but was almost completely devoid of examples). There must be some approach to this that actually uses all the machinery that's developed in the rest of the book. Is there a satisfying, pretty way to deal with this thing that I'm missing, something that would tell me why these relationships hold and not just that they hold?


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Everyone can have a go at skating and if you don't fancy that we have Quasar, laser gun fun in our specially made arena. All overlooked by our fully trained staff.
Rollerworld has the best parties in Essex, with both Roller Skating and Quasar available or you can do both for a small upgrade. Every party has a party host with lots of options available when booking.
Rollerworld and Quasar is available for all ages, just check out our new website to book online or just turn up. We always have offers available, our most popular is our 4 for 3 on all sessions, so bring your friends or the whole family.
Rollerworld has over 14s Saturday night disco, after school sessions from 3.30pm on Wednesdays and Thursdays, Friday night is family disco night, we have daytime sessions on Saturdays and Sundays during the day and a chilled out Sunday evening sessions. Plus, lots lots more……….
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Continue from Colchester High Street down East Hill to East Street. Rollerworld is on the right just before the level crossing.
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- Within 50 metres approx. of entrance
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