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Want to open the boot in the new Ford Kuga? Just give it a kick.
The car company today said it will equip the hatchback with a gesture recognition system. Sensors mounted in the rear bumper detect the presence of a hoof being raised and held in close proximity and, if the car is unlocked, will automatically open the rear door.
The notion is the tech will appeal to folk who regularly return to their vehicle with hands holding shopping bags. It requires the car be fitted with a keyless locking system that detects the presence of the owner and unlocks the vehicle as they approach.
Ford claimed the system safeguards against accidental opening by being programmed to open with specific leg motions – a kick, basically - not when an animal runs under the car or when the vehicle hits a bump on the road. It also works if you have a towbar fitted.
The same gesture can be used to close the boot.
The automatic hands-free tailgate will be launched as an option with Keyless Entry on the Kuga early in 2013. ®


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The Arkin laboratory seeks to uncover the evolutionary design principles of cellular networks and populations and to exploit them for applications. To do so they are developing a framework to effectively combine comparative functional genomics, quantitative measurement of cellular dynamics, biophysical modeling of cellular networks, and cellular circuit design to ultimately facilitate applications in health, the environment, and bioenergy.
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Siemens Convergence Creators Passed "100,000,000-subscriber" Milestone in North America
25 Feb, 2013, 06:00 GMT
VIENNA, Austria, February 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
3 out of 4 mobile operators in North America rely on Siemens Convergence Creators Solutions
Mobile operators these days are quickly evolving their core networks along a path to an All-IP world for voice and data services. Coming ground-breaking changes are creating challenges in technology adoption and timeline of rollouts. That makes future prove architecture and reliability to the main lever for success.
In January the order for the 100,000,000th licensed 4G subscriber has been issued to Siemens Convergence Creators. That means that 3 of 4 mobile operators in North America now commit their Authentication, Authorization and Policy Control business to solutions engineered by Siemens Convergence Creators.
Thus Siemens Convergence Creators succeeded in gaining significant market share for Policy Control and Authentication (up to 75% in the Tier-1 segment) in North America by offering a reliable platform, next generation thinking and attractive pricing together with strong and reliable local partners and to pave the way into a packet switch future, for data, voice and multimedia services.
About Siemens Convergence Creators GmbH
Siemens Convergence Creators GmbH, headquartered in Vienna, provides its customers with turnkey solutions and services in the fields of communication networks, service and customer management, public safety and security, multimedia infotainment, as well as aerospace technology. In fiscal 2011, Siemens Convergence Creators had about 2000 employees at 19 locations in nine countries: Austria, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, India, Romania and Slovakia.
The company supplies more than 70 countries with communication and media products and solutions. Among the most important customers are the top players in their respective industrial sectors, i.e. telecommunications, media (TV, publishing houses), transport (cruise ships, railways, aircraft manufacturers, airlines and airports), space, public safety (action forces) and energy (wind power, oil and gas).
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Tel.: +43-51707-45116
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Employees who are confident in their benefits choices are much more likely to be satisfied with their employee benefits package, according to a new report.
Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, New York, published this finding in a report based on the findings from two separate Internet surveys conducted concurrently among 1,667 benefits plan participants (employees) and 1,071 benefits plan sponsors (employers). The Center for Strategy Research, a Boston-based market research firm, conducted the surveys in May and June.
The report observes that, while fewer than half of employees are very satisfied with their company's employee benefits package, more than 70% who are confident in their benefits selections are very satisfied.
Fewer than 4 in 10 employers (37%) say their benefits communications are effective in helping employees make the right choices about benefits.
The lack of confidence in communications contributes to employers' perceptions about benefits: Only 42% of employers believe that their employees are very satisfied with the benefits program offered.
And the perceptions match reality: Just one-third (34%) of respondents, the report shows, say the benefits communications they receive are very effective. And fewer than half of employees (49%) say they are very satisfied with their benefits packages.
In respect to how employees want to receive benefits communications, email (either at home or work) is the top choice at 40%. E-mail was followed closely by traditional mail, either at home or work (36%).
Smaller percentages of respondents cited one-on-one meetings during work hours (28%), watching non-interactive online presentations (25%), group meetings during work hours (24%), and videos or DVDs (19%).
The study observes that interest in receiving benefits information via social media is currently very low, with just 5% of employees citing a preference for this channel.
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Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: Marvel's prospective summer tentpole Iron Man 3 has us thinking back on more unusual superhero movies.
Super (2010)
The rise of Comic-Con has given birth to an unprecedented surge in superhero movies, slavishly tailored to flatter the egos and stoke the libidos of 14-year-old boys and their adult emotional equivalents. But while the po-faced seriousness of Zack Snyder's Watchmen and the Dark Knight movies may be an advance from the days when every article about comics started with the words "Bam! Pow!", they're still products of a time when comics were struggling to be taken seriously. The midnight hues and over-the-top violence made Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns a superhero book—sorry, graphic novel—adults could read without feeling ashamed. But now that grittiness is the law of the land, the idea of setting costumed crusaders in a realistic milieu has become just another adolescent fantasy.
James Gunn, who is currently directing the big-screen version of Marvel's Guardians Of The Galaxy, gets comics in a way few directors this side of Sam Raimi and Joss Whedon do. He loves the allure of spandexed, slogan-spouting crime fighters, and of moral combats that play out on an intergalactic stage. And he understands, at heart, that this stuff is kind of ridiculous, which only makes him love it more.
The man who will become the Crimson Bolt, the pipe-toting vigilante of Gunn's Super, is Rainn Wilson's glum short-order cook, a dim-witted lug whose life is highlighted by the moment he pointed out a fleeing shoplifter to a nearby cop. When his ex-junkie wife (Liv Tyler) falls under the sway of Kevin Bacon's swaggering dealer, Wilson slips on the tights and starts fighting crime. A little rusty on the fundamentals, he stops by a comic-book store for research, and leaves with a rabidly eager sidekick played by Ellen Page, who promptly christens herself Boltie.
Although he's not much in the crime-stopping department, Wilson becomes intoxicated by his own delusions of power, so much so that he starts punishing minor acts of civic disorder with a swift plumber's wrench to the skull. Page takes it even further. She doesn't just love violently dealing out justice—she gets off on it. Page ineptly demonstrates her purported martial-arts prowess to hilarious effect, but put a sharp object in her hand and she starts to do real damage.
Gunn saves his masterstrokes for Super's final act, abruptly swerving into blood territory and then pulling back for a moving, even spiritual coda. The film was shot on a tiny budget, and it shows, but its ideas are worth more than money can buy.
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Gallery Har Shalom has opened its exhibit "Adding In, Taking Away" — a showcase of talent by five area artists. Now through April 22, the gallery presents sculpture, woodworking and artwork created with a variety of printmaking techniques.
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Serious Reads: 5 Food Books We're Loving
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1. Steal the Menu, by Raymond Sokolov
Raymond Sokolov is one of the most esteemed names in food writing. He's written about food and foodways for Natural History magazine and the Wall Street Journal, and served a stint as the New York Times restaurant critic. In Steal the Menu: A Memoir of Forty Years in Food, he discusses his forays into food writing with humility, humor, and insight. His poignant recollections of dining experiences and observations about the industry are well worth a read.
2. Pandora's Lunchbox, by Melanie Warner
Anyone who's been to a grocery store knows that much of the food we find in American supermarkets is packaged, shelf-stable, or preserved. In Pandora's Lunchbox: How Processed Food Took Over the American Meal, Melanie Warner takes us through the history and conception of processed foods. She attends trade shows, observes food chemistry labs, and does her own ad-hoc food experiments to better understand the way science has changed our groceries. Warner's expertise as a business writer provides a unique take on the process of food industrialization.
3. Poor Man's Feast, by Elissa Altman
Elissa Altman writes beautifully and honestly about food, love, and how the two intersect over at her James Beard award-winning blog, Poor Man's Feast. Her new book, Poor Man's Feast: A Love Story of Comfort, Desire, and the Art of Simple Cooking is just as personal, a lovely read about Altman's life-long passion for food. Altman writes deeply about her relationship with her partner, Susan, and with edgy wit about her less-than-supportive, "food-phobic" mother, among other rich characters. As humble and relatable as her blog, Altman's memoir is a reflection on work, love, cooking, and finding the balance between them all.
4. Gaining Ground, by Forrest Pritchard
When a young Forrest Pritchard saw his family's farm falling deep into debt due to the encroaching threat of industrial agriculture, he decided to shift his life's path toward sustainable farming. Gaining Ground: A Story of Farmers' Markets, Local Food, and Saving the Family Farm is a refreshingly farmer-focused story of the struggles and successes of sustainable agriculture. This detailed story of negotiating a farming lifestyle is punctuated with adorable pictures of Pritchard's family and anecdotes that show the power of keeping a family farm alive.
5. Restaurant Man, by Joe Bastianich
As one of the most successful restaurateurs in the industry, Joe Bastianich has shaped New York's Italian landscape for nearly three decades. His bestselling memoir Restaurant Man alternates between stories of his young adulthood in Queens and his prolific career as a restaurant owner. He bluntly shares tips and behind-the-scenes insights into the math and science of restaurants. Though at times a bit crass, Bastianich's book is revelatory about the energy, intellect, and talent required to run a successful restaurant. He speaks from his experience growing up under his mother's training, and from opening and operating over a dozen restaurants with his business partner, Mario Batali.
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KALAMAZOO—Meeting in formal session Thursday, July 18, the Western Michigan University Board of Trustees will take up two action items and receive three briefings on major campus initiatives.
Meeting at 11 a.m. in 157-159 Bernhard Center, trustees are expected to vote on an administrative recommendation to authorize the use of the University's name and effect all necessary actions to allow the Thomas M. Cooley Law School to become the Western Michigan University Thomas M. Cooley Law School. The move is part of an affiliation agreement between the two schools that has been in the works for many months. Trustees also will consider approval of a building project priority list that WMU must annually submit to the state.
In addition, the board will hear information items detailing preliminary design concepts for renovating East Hall into an alumni center, a comprehensive campus housing and dining plan, and a report on WMU's consideration of becoming a tobacco-free campus.
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Nikki Batchelor joins XPRIZE as the Prize Manager for the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE with nearly 10 years of experience in project management, strategy, and program design.
Ms. Batchelor served as an Innovation Advisor to USAID on their Grand Challenges for Development initiative, helping to design and execute incentive competitions around energy, health, education, civic engagement, and water. Most recently, she worked as a Senior Strategist at NationBuilder, helping the tech start-up expand into new markets, explore product use cases, and lead marketing efforts. Ms. Batchelor has also managed large grant programs for USAID in Iraq and Afghanistan with DAI, both at home and overseas.
She holds an MBA from George Washington University as well as a B.S. in Business and a B.A. in International Relations from Chapman University. In her spare time, she volunteers on the steering committee for LA+Acumen bringing together the social impact community in Los Angeles and raising awareness around innovative ways of tackling poverty.


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February 20, 2019, Saitama, Japan - Tamron Co., Ltd. (President & CEO: Shiro Ajisaka), a leading manufacturer of optics for diverse applications, announces the development of two new lenses for full-frame DSLR cameras—the 35-150mm F/2.8-4 Di VC OSD (Model A043) zoom lens and the SP 35mm F/1.4 Di USD (Model F045) fixed focal lens; and a new high-speed ultra-wide-angle zoom lens for Sony E-mount full-frame mirrorless cameras—the 17-28mm F/2.8 Di III RXD (Model A046).
Tamron will display these new lenses at CP+ 2019, the World Premiere show for camera and photo imaging, beginning February 28 through March 3, 2019 at Pacifico Yokohama and at the Wedding and Portrait Professionals International (WPPI), February 27 through March 3, 2019 in Las Vegas.
The lenses are expected to launch in the middle of 2019.
High-speed ultra-wide-angle zoom lens for Sony E-mount cameras is extremely compact and lightweight: 17-28mm F/2.8 Di III RXD (Model A046)
The Model A046 achieves an astonishingly small diameter for a high-speed ultra-wide-angle zoom lens, as witnessed by its modest 67mm filter size. Its unprecedented light weight and compact size provide excellent balance when used with a full-frame mirrorless camera, making it easy to carry, and enabling it to cater to a wide range of scenes and shooting conditions. The Model A046 offers a fast F/2.8 aperture throughout the entire zoom range and delivers high-resolution and contrast edge to edge. The combination of ultra-wide-angle focal length, fast constant F/2.8 aperture and Minimum Object Distance of 7.5 in at the wide-angle end encourages richly expressive and creative photography in a multitude of scenarios. The Model A046's AF drive system is powered by the RXD (Rapid eXtra-silent stepping Drive) stepping motor unit, enabling it to deliver high-speed, high-precision and superbly quiet operation suitable for shooting video as well as still photographs.
So about $900 in the US? Not bad. I don't use UWA much but for that price I may end up with one eventually.
Vitaliy, any word on them developing a tele zoom to complete the trio?
I am sure they'll do such. but hard to say how soon.
Preorders will start only in summer due to some production delays
Tamron will have a 17-28mm pricing announcement this week and preorder will start also.
Tamron announces the launch of the 17-28mm F/2.8 Di III RXD (Model A046), a large aperture, ultra-wide-angle lens for Sony E-mount full-frame mirrorless cameras. The Model A046 features a filter diameter of Ø67mm (astonishingly small for a full-frame, large aperture, ultra-wide-angle zoom lens) as well as an unprecedented light weight of 14.8 oz. and diminutive length of 3.9 in. The compact size provides excellent balance on the small profile mirrorless cameras and is easy to carry. The lens will be available July 25 at approximately $899 at authorized Tamron USA retailers.
The Model A046 offers a large F/2.8 aperture throughout the entire zoom range and delivers high-resolution and contrast edge-to-edge. The combination of ultra-wide-angle focal length, large constant F/2.8 aperture and an MOD (Minimum Object Distance) of 7.5 in. at the wide-angle end encourages richly expressive and creative photography in a multitude of scenarios.
The new 17-28mm zoom's AF drive system is powered by the RXD (Rapid eXtra-silent stepping Drive) stepping motor unit that enables it to deliver high-speed, high-precision and superbly quiet operation, making it suitable for shooting virtually noise-free video as well as still photographs.
In addition, the new zoom lens features Moisture-Resistant Construction and a hydrophobic Fluorine Coating that repels fingerprints and dirt. Plus, the Model A046 is fully compatible with various camera-specific features including Fast Hybrid AF and Eye AF. High performance, combined with exceptional portability, make the 17-28mm zoom ideal for daily use.
Companion model to the compact, popular Tamron 28-75mm F/2.8 Di III RXD (Model A036) zoom Sharing the same development concept as the highly esteemed Model A036 that launched in May 2018, the 17-28mm zoom (Model A046) was designed with the top priority of high optical performance in a form factor that is light and compact. Tamron engineers have achieved an unrivaled small size (3.9 in) and light weight (14.8 oz) for a zoom range of 17-28mm. The overall length does not change when zoomed or during focus, thereby creating stable, well balanced operation and excellent mobility. In addition, Model A046 features a filter diameter of just 67mm, very small for an ultra-wide-angle zoom lens. It has the same filter size as its sister lens the Model A036 allowing the use of the same lens cap and filters. The two zooms together create an extremely compact system that covers 17 to 75mm and weighs less than 35.3 oz.
Superb high-resolution performance
The 17-28mm zoom's optical design consists of 13 lenses in 11 groups, including three aspherical lens elements, two LD (Low Dispersion) lens elements and one XLD (eXtra Low Dispersion) lens element that has properties close to those of fluorite. Together they efficiently suppress chromatic and other aberrations. Additionally, Tamron's legendary BBAR (Broad-Brand Anti-Reflection) Coating effectively reduces ghosting and flare. Leveraging camera functions*, it provides excellent optical performance matching the latest high-resolution image sensors from edge-to-edge throughout the entire zoom range. The combination of compact size and light weight plus high-resolution performance lets users capture a wide variety of genre including landscapes, architecture and casual snapshot photography.
Extreme close-up capability enables versatile creative expression with ultra-wide-angle zoom The 17-28mm zoom focuses close. The MOD at the 17mm wide position is 7.5 in (same as Model A036) and the maximum magnification ratio is 1:5.2. At the 28mm end, it achieves the maximum magnification ratio of 1:6 while reaching the MOD of 10.2 in This remarkable performance allows users to create compositions that emphasize perspective (the closer subject is larger and the more distant one is smaller) and that are unique to wide-angle lenses.
The RXD stepping motor unit is exceptionally quiet
The AF drive incorporates a sensor that accurately detects the position of the lens while the RXD motor unit delivers optimized AF control. This achieves very fast and accurate autofocus operation, allowing users to maintain pin-sharp focus on continually moving subjects or when filming video. The exceedingly quiet operation is an important advantage because it virtually eliminates extraneous sounds during video recording. In addition, the compact configuration of the RXD AF drive system contributes to the unprecedented size and weight reduction.
Moisture-Resistant Construction and Fluorine Coating
Environmental seals are located at the lens mount area and other critical locations to prevent infiltration of moisture and/or rain drops and afford Moisture-Resistant construction. This feature provides an additional layer of protection when shooting outdoors under adverse weather conditions. Also, the front surface of the lens element is coated with a protective fluorine compound that has excellent water- and oil-repellant qualities. The lens surface is easier to wipe clean and is less vulnerable to the damaging effects of dirt, moisture or oily fingerprints, allowing for much easier maintenance.
Consistent design and operation throughout all Tamron lenses for full-frame mirrorless cameras
Similar to the 28-75mm (Model A036), the 17-28mm (Model A046) has a zoom ring at the front and a focus ring at the rear. Zooming, focusing and other functions are identical in this series to ensure consistent operation. The design is not only beautiful, it is functional as well and features an outer housing hugging the smooth contours of the lens body, deftly worked Luminous Gold brand ring and the precise, rigid metal lens mount. The Luminous Gold brand ring solidifies the characteristic look of a Tamron-branded lens whether on its own or attached to a camera body.
Versatile, exciting combination when paired with the 28-75mm F/2.8 Di III RXD (Model A036) Two high-performance partners, the 17-28mm combined with the 28-75mm, cover the super-broad range from 17mm ultra wide-angle to 75mm medium telephoto, and maintain excellent speed with an open aperture of F/2.8. The total weight of the two lenses is 34.2 oz, less than 1kg. This compact but potent combo makes the most of the mobility of mirrorless cameras. In addition, both models have a filter diameter of 67mm, so the same filters such as PL (Polarizer) and ND (Neutral Density) may be used with both models, and lens caps are interchangeable.
Compatible with main camera-specific features and functions
Tamron's new 17-28mm zoom is compatible with many of the advanced features that are specific to certain mirrorless cameras. This includes the following:
- Fast Hybrid AF
- Eye AF
- Direct Manual Focus (DMF)
- In-camera lens correction (shading, chromatic aberration, distortion)
- Camera-based lens unit firmware updates
UK - RRP of £899, and a release date of late July 2019.
Tamron published apology, as due to too high preorders number delivery can be delayed
Situation is quite opposite for all L mount lenses, btw.
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Castro enjoyed every moment of All-Star experience
Though playing time didn't materalize, catcher had a blast in New York
NEW YORK -- Jason Castro didn't need a printed depth chart to understand where he stood in the American League All-Star pecking order.
There were three catchers on the roster: starter Joe Mauer, Salvador Perez and him. Mauer caught six innings. Perez caught three. Baseball is nine innings. And, well ... That's all, folks.
Just how disappointed Castro was to not get in the game is purely speculative. He was diplomatic about the whole thing afterward, emphasizing that although he would have liked to have played, he went into it knowing full well he may not get the chance. That's the life of a backup catcher, after all.
"It's understandable with what this game means for the postseason," Castro said. "There are a number of guys that didn't get in. Being a catcher, that's the one position where you really don't have just anybody that can fill in. So it's understandable."
All-Star managers are playing to win, given the high stakes -- World Series home-field advantage -- that ride on the game. Having an emergency or backup catcher on the bench is a strategy used daily during the regular season, to protect against injury to the front-line starter. Castro sensed after the eighth inning that AL manager Jim Leyland would stick with Perez to work with closer Joe Nathan, and he wasn't shocked when it happened.
"I was definitely looking around, making sure I was ready just in case," Castro said. "But I figured at that point I was going to be an emergency situation-type thing."
Still, Castro walks away with no regrets. His first All-Star appearance was a thrill, regardless of playing time. He had a front-row seat to one of the more entertaining Midsummer Classics in recent history, if for no other reason than the hoopla that surrounded the retiring Mariano Rivera:
A standing ovation from the sold-out crowd, the blaring of Rivera's signature "Enter Sandman" as he ran in to pitch the eighth, his teammates' decision to wait to take the field while Rivera soaked in the adoration from the pitcher's mound, and the grateful expression on Rivera's face as he relayed his appreciation to the crowd.
Throw in an appearance by crowd favorite Neil Diamond, and come to think of it, maybe the dugout wasn't such a bad place to be.
"That's something that I'll remember for the rest of my life," Castro said. "To be a teammate, in the dugout, and be a part of that was incredible. It was an honor to be here, good timing, and it's been a great experience."
Most players who have participated in All-Star Games cite the camaraderie and some good old-fashioned shop talk as their favorite elements of being a part of the event. Players like to pick one another's brain, without giving away too much.
Castro was definitely all ears during his time with his temporary teammates.
"We talked a little bit," he said. "I was in on some conversations with different pitchers and what they were talking about. Just being around all these guys ... There's just so much baseball knowledge in that room. We talked back and forth about what works for guys with their teams and things like this. It's great to be a part of this.
"These guys are the best at what they do. To have that opportunity to be around people like that definitely can only benefit someone in this situation."
Castro, whose wife, parents, brother and family friends were with him throughout the experience, was prepared for the chaotic nature of the All-Star Game and figured it would be magnified even more because it took place in New York. For a first-timer, this was a good one to be a part of.
"It's definitely a lot kind of coming at you at once," he said. "But I've just taken it all in stride and just enjoyed every moment of it. I'm excited to be a part of this, but I'm excited to get back to the [Astros] and start up the second half."


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Just days after RadarOnline first reported the split, PEOPLE magazine is now confirming Kim Kardashian and boyfriend Miles Austin have broken up.
"There's no huge reason except their distance apart," Kim a source close to the couple tells PEOPLE. "With his season and Kim's filming [Keeping Up with the Kardashians] it just slowly split them apart."
Another source tells Radar "they broke up about a week ago." The breakup comes as Kim is in Europe promoting Keeping Up With the Kardashians, while Miles is focusing on his new football season with the Dallas Cowboys.
"They tried to keep it as low profile as possible when they were together. They were acting as if they were single or just having fun, but they never were – it was the real deal. They were always strong, but before Kim left for Europe they decided it's not fair that they don't get to spend more time together and ended it," says a source to PEOPLE, adding that the breakup was mutual.


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BARCELONA, Spain -- In the land of the siesta, citizens have collectively decided to put the business of life and work on hold from about 2 o'clock until 4 o'clock, when everyone tucks into a leisurely lunch followed by an afternoon catnap.
At least that's how it works in many foreigners' imaginations. In fact, the siesta has become largely myth.
Although hard figures are difficult to come by, a survey by a Spanish mattress company found that fewer than 10 percent of Spaniards actually take daily siestas, reflecting a years-long cultural shift away from a schedule that permits extended breaks in the middle of the day.
The government officially did away with long lunches in 2006, and private companies and tourist-focused shops have followed suit, leaving many Spanish workers, especially those in larger cities, keeping more or less the same hours as those in northern Europe and the United States.
But even though the siesta-style workday has become little more than a memory for many Spaniards, not all of its traditions have disappeared. That's especially true of one of its sweetest if usually unspoken perks.
Although Mariano Zamorano, who owns an artisanal sword forge, still often shuts his Toledo shop for a few hours in the afternoons, he's never been much for napping.
"I prefer another form of relaxation," he says with a wink. "A nice siesta with a woman after lunch is a pleasure."
For 74-year-old Lydia Artigas, sex in the afternoon is work. Better known as Señora Rius, the Barcelona madam has logged 50 years in the business of what she calls "making men."
"I've never wanted to work at night, even when I was young," she says sitting in a zebra-print-upholstered armchair in her apartment in Barcelona's tony L'Eixample district, petting her shih-tzu, Ninet. "At night, a man's tired, he's lived a little, he's had a couple of drinks, but in the afternoon you're more vital."
Despite an overall drop in business since the start of Spain's economic crisis in 2008, Rius still sees a spike in visitors during the hours after lunch. Like many Catalans, Rius isn't in the habit of napping during the day, but she appreciates the brief pause afforded by the extended lunch breaks once common in Spain.
"It's a space that seems your own," she says. "You can forget about work. You can leave the office, go for a walk in the park... or come to Señora Rius."
Climate is a factor. The siesta has traditionally been associated with the south, where slowing down during the hottest hours of the day can be a necessity.
"The siesta hours are always dangerous for couples," says Ruben Garcia, 37, of Seville. "In the summer, it's too hot to be out in the streets, so it's the perfect time."
The temptation hasn't been lost on Spanish hotels.
The Hotel Association of Seville has devised a "siesta" promotion that offers access to rooms for four-hour stretches in the afternoon at discounted rates. It's no seedy, fly-by-night operation, but an arrangement for three- and four-star properties.
Association spokesman Santiago Padilla admits it's been more effective as PR than an actual sales tool, but at Seville's modern JM Jardin de la Reina hotel, director Rafael Rivero says the promotion has been a hit.
Although the promotion website innocently touts the health benefits of an afternoon nap, it's a safe bet those checking in may be looking for more than just a few extra REM cycles.
"I'd say 80 percent of the clients are couples," Rivero says.
Still, they're a shrinking minority.
"Even if I wanted to, I couldn't," says Anna, 26, a consultant for a multinational corporation in Barcelona who's typical of those who no longer have the luxury of time off during the day for liaisons or even a nap. "Everyone's pretty busy during the afternoon."
But as shifting working hours continue to chip away at what's left of the siesta culture, back in Madrid, Señora Rius knows sex in Spain isn't going anywhere.
"It doesn't matter whether it's morning, noon or afternoon," she says. "The first opportunity men have for sex, they take it."


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To be honest, I have not watched the show at all.
As a guy who wants to work in animation, I like the style of the cartoon.
Basically, I stopped watching Nick at the end of 2009 b/c I was getting older at the time, and I can tell Nick is a totally different thing than what it used to be.
I don't think there was a topic about Nickelodeon's "The Loud House" at No Homers, so I decided to make one.
So everything about The Loud House, can be discussed here.


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Have a look at our product range full of sophisticated electronic products as well as non-electronic aids of practical value for the blind and visually impaired.
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PEORIA, Ariz. -- With Chase Headley sidelined for at least two weeks with a strained right calf, the Padres have decided who will play third base in the interim.
San Diego manager Bud Black said four players in big league camp -- Alexi Amarista, Ryan Jackson, Alberto Gonzalez and Minor Leaguer Jace Peterson -- could see playing time at third base when Cactus League play begins Thursday.
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I remember we discussed this idea when we were planning the updated MbyT thread, and if i remember correctly we all agreed it was a good suggestion, one that you made many moons ago here, i think it did not happen simply because it had been such a huge task classifying all the missions, formatting them, and pasting them into their respective categories your idea just kind of got lost somewhere down the line.
A couple of points with regards to your notes
Nickie, Kamyk and myself discussed a number of categories both new and old, and generally agreed on most of them but there were a few oddities, such as City & Mansion, which was my idea as there are a few missions that are pretty much 50/50 city/mansion and so did not really fit into either city or mansion separate sections comfortably.....so i admit it was a bit of a fudge to try to accommodate those missions.
Again Beasts was a bit of a fudge category as there are some missions that had a lot of non standard enemies in them but we could not think of a better word than beasts
AI Battle/Battle Arena/Combat....there was more discussion/debate about this category than any other....but it was included as there are a number of missions in which fighting of various kinds is the most significant part of that mission....think early Cardia missions
Daylight....this category goes all the way back to when Kamyk started this thread, many moons ago it was rare for missions to be set in daylight and when kamyk started this thread others suggested this section to help them find such missions....it was kept in as we saw no reason to remove it, although i accept that nowadays its relevance is limited
Lost Civilizations.....not a lot of missions released nowadays fit into this category, but enough T1/TG and early T2 missions seemed to justify having such a section
Mazes....again not a huge number of missions fall into this category, but 'Mazes' is one of those aspect of Thief that is a real turn off for some people, they just so hate mazes, we included this section to give people a heads up
Sci-Fi/Future/Modern/Other Worlds/Space.....yeah ok i admit it...another fudge but there are enough missions out there that just can not be classified in any other way and the whole point of having a MbyT thread is to include every mission and thus have enough sections to accommodate all the missions
So any thoughts or suggestions for organizing the FM list based on my draft?
Also what about including descriptions of each category on each category post? (Wouldn't really fit on the listing post without getting very cluttered unfortunately.)
And would it be of any interest to add the OMs to the categories?
Last edited by Iceblade; 13th Nov 2015 at 14:57.
Your suggestions are being discussed at the moment. We can include brief descriptions in that discussion but I can tell you I'm not in favour, nor of including OMs as this forum is entirely devoted to fan missions.
I think this is a very impractical method of listing fan missions. There are just way too many categories with the same missions listed repeatedly. Too many missions change locations for such a list. I believe it would be better with just a simple alphabetical list with downloads and screenshots. That way each mission gets listed only once. When I play a Thief mission, I don't base my decision to play that mission on whether it's a city, bank job, Hammerite, daylight, Mechanist, etc. This list took me quite a while to go through trying to see if I have missed any missions over the years.
It isn't the purpose of this list to simply list all fan missions. It is not a list of all fan missions. While this is not the criteria you use to choose a fan mission, it is a very common and popular means of choosing a fan mission. Many (if not most) people have definite preferences about what type of mission they like to play, or perhaps just what they are in the mood for at the moment. So this list helps them find missions of a particular type.
Clearly not all missions fall into a single category. As you say, they change locations and location types. That is why a single mission may appear in multiple categories. Searching this list for a specific mission is not going to be very easy. But searching this list for a particular type of mission should be fairly productive.
But I agree with you in one thing, it would be nice if a complete, alphabetical (or sortable) list of fan missions existed somewhere.
If you're looking for missions you may have missed then the A-Z Listing of Fan Missions with FM Loader Guide is a comprehensive alphabetical list of fan missions.
I take it the silence means no to the sublist idea.
Listing mission per type is also useful to author too to know what kind of mission is rare/missing.
When you are creating a fan mission you just don't want to create what you've got in mind but you also whish to try a new experimentation in playing Thief.
So such list per categories IS very useful.
Plus I saw many players saying "I want to play a city mission", "I don't want to play a zombie mission", "I want challenge", "I want action", "I want puzzles".
Things like this!
So we must - should keep such kind of listing. It is clearly what I need during these rare time I can and want to play a mission!
Call me Jojo if you want! ;)
I'm sorry, Iceblade, this is my fault. I've not been able to be around as much as usual so not only have we not really had time to discuss it but Nightwalker and Tannar have been doing my forum duties as well as their own and so have even less time than they did. Hopefully I'll be back full time in January and we can deal with this as well as other suggestions for the forum.
The Drymian Codex should be added to the Pagan category when someone has a moment.
I expect that if I hadn't been quite so distracted, I would have remembered to post something to the effect that it had had to be put on the back burner for a while. Again, apologies.
In the campaign section, The Librarian should be added as the prequel to Spear of Destiny. Currently SOD is the only entry...
Also, Bad Debts and Disorientation should be added as a double campaign.
Thanks for that. I've got some updating to do this week so will add those.
And we are, at long last, playing around with Iceblade's subcategory idea in its simplest form.
Just to say that LadyWhitman's Disease in post #13 is listed as T1, but the download link fetches a T2 FM of that name.
Prior to the T2 version of this mission, there was a T1 version.
Actually when I click the download link in that post it takes me to the T1 version download page. That page also lists the T2 download, but it's the T1 download page. Look at the bottom of the page to see the T1 download link.
Is there any chance to add old FM to one of the categories? Last year, I played 5 mission pack for Thief 2 called Nightmares!!!/Cauchemars!!! This is the hardest FM i have ever played. I gave up on the half of 1st mission.
Here is a link to download and here is a link to ttlg thread.
I would like someone to add it to the hardest category.
That campaign is already listed in the Horror category, and possibly others. I'll see about including it in the hardest category.
I've added Nightmares (Cauchemars) to the Hardest category.
Are there any Thief 1/Gold autumn missions, except for Autumn in Lampfire Hills?


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I love this. I love what it isn't. It certainly isn't "God had a purpose for me. I am special." Sometimes, Justin Timberlake Beiber, it comes down to luck, and having been prepared when luck happens to arrive.
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I sat across from him, and told him a story about some of my deepest fears as a coach. He listened intently, his soft, light blue eyes gazing into mine, seeing right through into my soul. I asked him if I should have done more. Could I have helped more?
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Johnny Depp has been offered a role in "Dean Martin biopic" and now i'am reading that Jim Carrey is wanted for Jerry Lewis!!!!!!! My GOOOD imagine Johnny and Jim in this Comedy that would be amazing )) Johnny would play Dean Martin and Jim would play Jerry Lewis. They were great comedy duo, and now Johnny and Jim they would be even better.!
here http://www.examiner.com/article/johnny-depp-rumored-to-play-cool-cat-dean-martin


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February 1, 2013, 8:23 a.m.
Reacting to a federal appellate court decision upholding the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's denial of reclassification of marijuana, The Times states in its Jan. 25 editorial that whether marijuana should be reclassified under federal law to permit its prescription as a medicine should be based on science and an evaluation of the facts, rather than on myths. I fully agree.
And yet the editorial is based on the myth that the DEA has made it "nearly impossible" for researchers to obtain marijuana for such scientific studies. To the contrary, not a single scientifically valid study by a qualified researcher has ever been denied by the DEA or, for that matter, by the National Institute of Drug Abuse. And there is ample government-grown marijuana, specifically for research, available at the marijuana farm run by the University of Mississippi. More surprising, as your editorial points out, is that there is still no scientifically valid study that proves that marijuana is effective, much less safe, as a medicine.
As the DEA administrator 20 years ago, I denied the reclassification of marijuana from a Schedule I controlled drug because there were no valid scientific studies showing that smoking marijuana was an effective medicine. In my decision, published in the Federal Register, I interpreted federal law and set forth a five-part test that included whether there were valid scientific studies demonstrating that marijuana was safe and effective for treating any medical condition. I noted that at that time there were none of the kind of controlled, double-blind studies that the Food and Drug Administration would require before approving a new drug application, and I clearly spelled out that this would be necessary before marijuana would be reclassified to a lower schedule that would permit its use as a physician-prescribed medicine.
Essentially, I invited those who advocate marijuana use as a medicine to conduct research and then present it to the DEA. I laid out a road map for what they needed to do. If scientifically valid studies demonstrated that marijuana was "effective" and "safe," as the FDA defines those terms, the agency would reclassify marijuana into one of the other schedules. It is amazing that 20 years later there is still no such scientific study establishing that marijuana is effective as a medicine. And yet in the interim, the well-funded marijuana lobby, including the National Assn. for the Reform of Marijuana Laws and others, have spent tens of millions of dollars on convincing voters to pass medical marijuanainitiatives based on anecdotes but not science.
The reason the FDA and the DEA have scientific standards is because snake-oil salesmen are able to sell just about anything to sick people without any scientific proof that it has a truly helpful therapeutic effect. If proponents of medical marijuana had invested even a small fragment of their money in scientifically valid studies, we would know one way or the other whether it works.
One can only conclude the marijuana proponents did not go this route because doing so would have shown that cannabis is not an effective and safe medicine. Alternatively, we are left to conclude that their agenda was not about marijuana to help sick people, but rather was getting voters to pass medical marijuana initiatives as a wedge to legalize the drug for "recreational" use.
Here is a response from a long time activist Rick Doblin:
Dear Mr. Robert Bonner,
Hello from Rick Doblin, Ph.D.,(Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, with my dissertation on the regulation of the medical uses of psychedelics and marijuana). I'm currently Executive Director of the non-profit research and educational organization, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS, www.maps.org), which I founded in 1986. You may be surprised to learn that for the last 20+ years, I have been inspired by, and frequently quote, your 1992 statement that you mention in your article above in which you encouraged advocates of medical marijuana to conduct more research.
In 1992, you wrote, <Those who insist that marijuana has medical uses would serve society better by promoting or sponsoring more legitimate scientific research, rather than throwing their time, money and rhetoric into lobbying public relations campaigns and perennial litigation."
I have put my full energies for the last 20+ years into trying to conduct FDA-approved medical marijuana drug development research. Unfortunately, my experience, to which I hope you will give some credence, is exactly opposite of the open door to research that you claim exists. MAPS has obtained FDA and IRB approval for three different protocols to which NIDA refused to sell any marijuana, preventing the studies from taking place. In addition, NIDA refused for 7 years to sell MAPS 10 grams (!!) of marijuana for laboratory research investigating the vapors that come out of the Volcano vaporizer, compared to smoke from combusted marijuana.
Furthermore, MAPS has been involved for the last decade in litigation against DEA for refusing to license Prof. Craker, UMass Amherst, to grow marijuana exclusively for use in federally regulated research. In 2007, DEA Administrative Law Judge Bittner recommended, after extensive hearings with witness testimony, that it would be in the public interest for DEA to license Prof. Craker to grow marijuana under contract to MAPS, ending the NIDA monopoly on the supply of marijuana legal for use in FDA-regulated studies. DEA waited for almost two years and then rejected the ALJ recommendation just six days before the inauguration of Pres. Obama. On May 11, 2012, oral arguments took place before the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals in a lawsuit by Prof. Craker challenging DEA's rationale for rejecting the DEA ALJ recommendation. A ruling is currently pending from the 1st Circuit. From my perspective, DEA's rationale for rejecting the DEA ALJ recommendation is arbitrary and capricious, but of course what matters is what the 1st Circuit will eventually decide.
In your article above, you claimed, <To the contrary, not a single scientifically valid study by a qualified researcher has ever been denied by the DEA or, for that matter, by the National Institute of Drug Abuse.> The wiggle room in your statement above is the definition of "scientifically valid study". One would think that for a privately funded study being conducted without a penny of government money, with the aim of developing marijuana into an FDA-approved prescription medicine, that the FDA would be the regulatory agency to determine whether the study was "scientifically valid" and that Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval would be sufficient to protect the safety of the human volunteers to the study. However, in 1999, HHS created a policy (which could be reversed by Pres. Obama at any time without Congressional action) stating that PHS/NIDA reviewers would have to conduct an additional review of protocols from privately-funded sponsors seeking to purchase!
marijuana from NIDA. This additional PHS/NIDA protocol review process exists only for marijuana, not for research with any other controlled substance. MAPS has been able to make substantial progress with our research exploring the use of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy in subjects with chronic, treatment-resistant PTSD, including a current study in 24 US veterans, firefighters and perhaps even police officers with work-related PTSD.
It is these PHS/NIDA reviewers who have rejected all three of MAPS' FDA and IRB approved medical marijuana drug development protocols, preventing them from taking place. You can claim that the rejection of the these protocols was because they were not "scientifically valid". However, to make that claim, you would be saying that FDA and IRBs have approved studies that are not "scientifically valid", an accusation against the FDA that I doubt you really want to make.
MAPS currently has obtained FDA and IRB approval for a study of marijuana in 50 US veterans with chronic, treatment-resistant PTSD. Dr. Sue Sisley of UArizona is the PI and approval has been obtained from the UArizona IRB as well as the FDA. Research into a potentially beneficial treatment for US veterans is being blocked by PHS/NIDA reviewers who rejected this protocol. These PHS/NIDA reviewers approached the protocol review as if we were asking for a government grant for a basic science study. Instead, we were seeking to purchase marijuana from NIDA for a privately-funded drug development study. The PHS/NIDA reviewers made numerous incorrect and uninformed comments and clearly didn't understand drug development research. One reviewer objected to our outcome measures when we are using the FDA-required measure of PTSD symptoms, the CAPS. If you or any readers want to review our protocol along with the PHS/NIDA reviewers' comments and my annotated response, the documents are posted at: http://www.maps.org/research/mmj/marijuana_for_ptsd_study/
The compete record of Prof. Craker's DEA lawsuit is posted at: http://www.maps.org/research/mmj/dea_timeline/
MAPS will soon be resubmitting our marijuana/PTSD protocol for another round of PHS/NIDA review, even though we think this review should be eliminated from the process. All FDA/IRB and DEA approved protocols should automatically be allowed to purchase marijuana from NIDA.
To summarize, you have been an inspiration to me and have motivated me to devote several decades of my life to seek approval for medical marijuana drug development research. My failure to make progress in overcoming the obstruction of medical marijuana research by DEA/NIDA/PHS provides one of the clearest reasons for state level medical marijuana policy reform.
My conclusion is opposite of yours, when you said, "One can only conclude the marijuana proponents did not go this route because doing so would have shown that cannabis is not an effective and safe medicine."
Rather, one can only conclude that privately-funded medical marijuana drug development research is being aggressively and actively obstructed by DEA/NIDA/PHS because they know it can be scientifically proven that marijuana, smoked or vaporized, is both safe and effective.
The heros in all of this in my eyes are the FDA. It's not because FDA is pro-medical marijuana, or pro-psychedelic psychotherapy. Rather, FDA is pro science over politics. In other words, FDA are heroes simply for doing their jobs. If only DEA/NIDA/PHS considered the public interest over their increasingly out of touch passion for blocking FDA-regulated medical marijuana drug development research.
I urge you to reread your 1992 statement and join MAPS in asking for the end of the PHS protocol review process and for a new policy in which all FDA/IRB/DEA approved protocols automatically obtain approval to purchase NIDA marijuana. In addition, I sincerely hope you will also support DEA licensing of Prof. Craker. It's time to "serve society better by promoting or sponsoring more legitimate scientific research."
Rick Doblin, Ph.D.


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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Oct 11 (ANI): The Indian stock markets on Thursday opened in red with the Sensex witnessing a slump of 1008 points or 2.9 per cent to 33, 753 and the NSE Nifty 50 Index nosedived 316 points or 3 per cent to 10,144 amid the weak global cues.
The India rupee also touched a new low of Rs 74.46 per dollar plunging by 10 paise at Rs 74.30 per dollar versus previous close Rs 74.20.
Speaking to ANI, market expert Sunil Shah said, "People are now deciding to move their money out of any of the Asset classes as a trade war between the countries across the world is going on. I believe that the implications of the trade war will have an impact on the market in the longer term."
The Indian market indices have shown the downward trend as only 56 shares advanced against a decline of as many as 338 shares, while more than 3,000 shares remained stagnant.
Most of the shares belonging to metals, automobiles, banks, and pharmaceuticals sectors are bearing the maximum pain as the market has turned bearish. Top losers on the Sensex and Nifty include Yes Bank, Vedanta, Indiabulls Housing and Bajaj Finance.
Other Asian Stock Indexes such as Nikkei also plummeted by 4.35 per cent to 22,490.14 points and Shanghai Index is also down by 4.34 percent to 2,607.44.(ANI)


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Sub::Versive - Subroutine pre- and post-handlers
use Sub::Versive qw(append_to_sub prepend_to_sub builtinify);
sub foo { print "Hi there\n"; }
append_to_sub { print "Doing foo() now"; } &foo;
prepend_to_sub { print "Finished"; } &foo;
prepend_to_sub { print "Yes, it's stackable"; } &foo;
prepend_to_sub { $@="Hijacked!"; do_something_else() }
builtinify &foo;
package bar;
foo(); # Still works.
The synopsis pretty much tells you all you need to know. You can add pre- and post-actions to subroutines, stack them, have them force a return, and make a subroutine available from everywhere.
I'm sorry, incidentally, that this needs 5.6.1 and above, especially since 5.6.1 isn't released right now. This is because of the prototyping behaviour. If you want to make it work with 5.6.0, zap the prototypes and pass subroutine references instead of subroutine names. I just vastly prefer the syntax, that's all. You'll still need
Devel::Peek from 5.6.0, though.
None by default, all three functions available.
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Los Islotes - Mango Village Casitas
You could say that Lief Simon spent more than 12 years looking for this piece of land on the Pacific coast of Panama's Azuero Peninsula. In those dozen years, Lief has tromped beaches from Nicaragua to Honduras...from Belize to Mexico...from Ecuador to Brazil...from Argentina to Uruguay...
Over the 20+ years of his career, Lief has traveled not only the coasts of North, Central, and South America...he's also explored the sandy beaches of the islands of the Caribbean and the shores of the Med. He's seen coastlines from Thailand to the Philippines, from Vietnam to India, from Egypt to Australia, and from Turkey to New Zealand.
And here on this western-facing coast in Panama's Veraguas Province is where he's chosen to focus his attention. This is a region of Panama that is just beginning to attract attention but that sits smack dab in the path of this country's current progress.
Here, Lief and his wife, Kathleen Peddicord, have purchased 750 acres with 1 kilometer of Pacific coastline and two separate beaches, one of which continues for 9 kilometers to the south, allowing for long, uninterrupted walks on the sand. The other is in a secluded cove where the waters of the Pacific are calmed and warmed...perfect for swimming.
Just offshore Los Islotes are three small islands, from which the property takes its name. Beyond them, each evening, is the sunset. This coast is the only place in Panama where you can watch the sun set over the water, for it's the only stretch of Panama's coast that faces west.
Nearby are Cerro Hoya National Park and Coiba National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, where jaguars and ocelots roam free and the scarlet macaw is common.
This is a natural paradise, a region of Panama that boasts some of the best deep-sea fishing in the world, plus surfing, snorkeling, and scuba diving. Around Coiba lies the largest coral reef on the Pacific side of the Americas.
On these 750 acres, Lief and Kathleen have master planned a private, gated, residential community that will include a Spanish colonial-style town with shops, restaurants, apartments, and a central plaza for daily strolling and nightly entertainment.
Other areas of the property will be given over to individual homes, low-rise condos, casitas, and town homes, as well as a high-end boutique hotel.
Planned community amenities include a gatehouse, a beach club, three pools, an equestrian center, tennis courts that will double as basketball courts, a fitness center, parks, hiking trails, riding trails...even an area of petanque.
All utilities will be underground. The plan calls for central wastewater treatment, fiber-optic cable for Internet, and sidewalks. It's an ambitious project that will take 10 years to build out in full.
"Buy what you see," Live and Invest Overseas reminds you often. This advice is no less important in the context of Los Islotes. What do you see at Los Islotes today?
Simply the most beautiful piece of land for development that Lief has found in more than a dozen years of concentrated searching. Its undulating hills, dramatic shore and surf, and expansive ocean, island, and mountain views are postcard-perfect.
That, then, is what you'd be buying today. A chance to participate in the development of a piece of land that boasts the best Mother Nature has to serve up anywhere.
Accessed via a paved highway.
Hidden about 75 minutes from the bustling, fast-growing town of Santiago.
In a part of this country where big names with deep pockets are right now making serious and long-term plans. Furthermore, at Los Islotes, you're buying into a piece of property officially zoned for development and that has received all government approvals required for the launch of retail sales.
Where, in addition, the internal roads are in and construction is under way for the colonial-style Founder's Lodge.
This western Sunset Coast of the Azuero Peninsula is Panama's next big thing, the market where everyone--investors, travelers, and retirees--is headed.
Los Islotes is the gold standard private residential community on this coast. Nothing else in the region compares.


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Ever since Adele Yedid sent in her delicious and nutritious recipe for kale chips, I've been on the lookout for more variations of kale recipes, especially kale salad recipes. Caesar salad with regular romaine lettuce is a staple in our home and I can never make enough of it. This Kale Caesar Salad has bonus vitamins and nutrition and the family wont even notice that you are trying to sneak it in! You can buy home baked, fresh whole grain bread to make your healthy croutons in Pomegranate Supermarket on Coney Island Avenue in Brooklyn.
Directions for Kale Salad:
- Puree 1/3 cup olive oil, 1 garlic clove, 2 anchovy fillets, 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce, and salt and pepper to taste in a blender.
- Toss 1 1/2 cups whole wheat bread cubes with 1 tablespoon of the dressing; broil on a baking sheet until toasted, about 2 minutes.
- Toss 1 1/4 pounds chopped kale with the remaining dressing;
- broil kale with dressing on another baking sheet, stirring, until crisp, 5 to 8 minutes. Put the kale and croutons in a bowl and top with lemon juice, grated parmesan and a chopped hard-boiled egg.
- note – According to Sephardic Jewish Kashrut laws- you cannot mix fish with cheese- so you can use Worcestershire substitute or you can omit the cheese.
Photograph by Antonis Achilleos
Food stylist: Jamie Kimm Prop Stylist: Marina Malchin
Recipe from http://www.foodnetwork.com


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Tomorrow is the REALLY BEEG SHEW (you have to say this in your best Ed Sullivan voice for it to work, you know).
Yes, it's SWEDE FEST™ PALM BEACH! Polish the tiaras, fluff the feather boas, set your berets at a jaunty angle, and practice tying the cravats, kiddies.
We've got red carpet, a highly sweded step-and-repeat WITH photographer (nothing but the best for you!), our own film crew shooting a non-sweded mini-doc of the First Annual SWEDE FEST™ PALM BEACH, Arts Radio Network on site to do interviews, The Digital Domain Institute and New Times handing out swag, plenty of bevvies (of the G-rated and Adult-Only kind), a live DJ, — we even have official SWEDE FEST™ PALM BEACH cupcakes!!
Plus we have a killer set of emcees (The Jove Comedy Experience), nice comfy chairs to screen some of the funniest swedes ever, and a VIP after-party at Cantina Laredo with drink specials for ticket holders. We're just piling on the fun, peeps. Get there at 6:00PM sharp or you'll miss out on the festive parts.
This extravaganza is brought to you by Mainstreet at Midtown, which is pretty cool when you think about it.


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I am loving these stamps!! This cross was my first Holly Berry Stamp that I bought and I loved how it turned out. It is made so you can cut it out and layer it into many layers and it becomes this beautiful 3D piece of art. I used 3 different colors of card stock here although it be hard to see that because they are close in color. I heat embossed each of 9 layers with silver embossing powder and then I cut each layer out and then added stickles to certain parts of the cross where I wanted it. Let it all dry and they I placed each layer on pop dots and added the square rhinestone in the center to finish it off. I think this is absolutely beautiful and more so in real life!!
September 17, 2008
Holly Berry House Celtic Cross
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Personal information on about a third of Massachusetts residents has been compromised, according to the state's attorney general, citing statistics gleaned from the tough data breach reporting law there.
About 2.1 million of the state's roughly 6.6 million residents had some form of personal data put at risk in 1,166 reported theft incidents, says Attorney General Martha Coakley, according to a report in the Boston Globe. She was citing numbers gathered from the start of 2010 through this August.
QUIZ:The data breach quiz
She says she is reviewing the stats to see whether the law, which imposes heavy fines for non-compliance by entities entrusted with this data, is cutting back on breaches that lead to compromises.
The AG says a combination of hacking, errors by employees and a growing body of personal data that is stored electronically by businesses will put that data at more risk over time. "This is going to be an increasing target," she says.
The largest breach in the time period Coakley is reviewing involved information on about 800,000 people that was lost by a vendor hired to destroy it. Even information on 210,000 residents entrusted to a state agency was put at risk.
The types of data covered by the law include credit card and bank account numbers, Social Security numbers and medical records. Massachusetts' reporting law is considered one of the toughest in the nation. The state is also the home of TJX (See: "20 years for notorious TJX hacker Gonzalez", whose loss of millions of credit card numbers was notable for its scale and is still one of the largest ever.
Coakley says the compromised records were not necessarily exploited. So a person's credit card number might have been removed from a secure and trusted environment but not necessarily used without authorization.
Of the 1,166 breaches since 2010, 41% have occurred in the past eight months. A quarter of the compromises stem from hacking, but the data was also put in jeopardy by loss of laptops and paper documents, sending information to the wrong recipient and unauthorized viewing of files by employees.
Many of the reported incidents were small, with just one person being affected in 30% of the cases.
Read more about wide area network in Network World's Wide Area Network section.
This story, "Personal Data of One Third of Massachusetts Residents Has Been Compromised" was originally published by Network World.


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Report of Snowden accepting Venezuelan asylum may be wrong
MOSCOW -- The net of rumors and uncertainties over NSA leaker Edward Snowden deepened Tuesday when a prominent Russian lawmaker tweeted that Snowden had accepted Venezuela's offer of political asylum, then deleted the posting a few minutes later.
It was not possible to immediately reach Alexei Pushkov, the head of the Russian parliament's foreign affairs committee who has acted as an unofficial point-man for the Kremlin on the Snowden affair. But soon after the posting on his Twitter account disappeared, he sent another message saying his claim was based on a report from the state all-news television channel Vesti.
However, no such information could be found on Vesti's website and no Russian news agency reported that Vesti had reported it. The TV channel could not immediately be reached for comment.
The Kremlin declined comment on Tuesday's developments.
Snowden, who revealed details of a U.S. intelligence program to monitor Internet activity, came to Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport on June 23 and was believed to be headed for Cuba. But he did not board that flight and has not been seen publicly since. He is widely believed to still be in the airport's transit zone.
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elias Jaua said Saturday his country hadn't yet been in contact with Snowden, who has been unable to travel further because the U.S. annulled his passport.
For Snowden to leave for South America, he would need for Venezuela to issue him travel documents and he would need to find a way to get there. The only direct commercial flight from Moscow stops in Havana, Cuba.
The Moscow-Havana flight goes over Europe and the U.S., which could cause complications. Some European countries refused to allow Bolivian President Evo Morales to fly through their airspace on his way home from Moscow last week because of suspicions that Snowden was on his plane.
The presidents of Bolivia and Nicaragua also said over the weekend that Snowden was welcome in their countries.


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Oh, wow. It's been a while. Well, I guess that's just how it goes. Anyway, here's my justification: aside from selling books, I've been working on making money from my knitting. That's right, Knits With Carrots is slowly but surely making its way to the necks of people near you. My first design (!) is a little neckwarmer that I've made at least 15 of by now (no joke), so that's been eating up my time like crazy. Pictures soon, and I think I may make it into a pattern to share.
It's pretty cool designing knit things. I mean, one, it means I can sell it, and two, it makes me all inspired to make more things. And it's getting cold! So these things I'm going to be making will be accessories galore. I can't wear knit garments every day — I barely justify wearing my favorite knit socks multiple days in a row — but wearing the same scarf over and over? Totally acceptable.
Ramble ramble, but: one of the best (and totally unanticipated) perks of putting out into the world that I am a Serious and Professional Knitter is that a lot of my friends are saying, "Hi, can I pay you to knit things for me?", and the answer is pretty much always a "Hell yes!" So I have thigh-high legwarmers on the docket, among other things. Maybe not cost effective, but it feels good to get paid for my labor and to keep my friends' extremities warm. And have money to pay for hot chocolate while I, you guessed it, knit these freakin' neckwarmers. Oh wait, let me edit that: these freakin' now-available-in-a-real-boutique neckwarmers.
Hell yes.


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Based on one of the most popular and critically acclaimed furniture designs of the last century, the Mid Century Side Chair will complement any room or commercial space. The flexible deep seat pocket and the declining seat edge, allow the sitting area to bend, transforming it into an exquisite and extremely comfortable chair.
Material: Polyester Woven
Material: PP Seat
Material: Electroplated stainless steel frame with brushed nickel finish
Dimensions: W 18.5 x D 21 x H 32
Seat height: 17.5
Assembly Required: 1 Person Assembly
Packaging: Boxed
Ships via: Parcel
- Dimensions (inches): 18.5″ W x 21″ D x 32″ H