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Hey, it's Daniel from TMZ here, back with another edition of the "Lost" Diary. After last week's epic episode, I am psyched for this week. "Lost" is back (back, meaning good again) and I couldn't be happier.
There were some unbelievably great comments last week. Some notes on a few of them:
-- A ton of you said that you thought of me immediately when you heard about Charlie's impending death. OK, so not only do I obsess over the potential death of a fictional television character, but now even total strangers I have never met know it too.
-- Most of you agree Charlie should die, but it seems the second most disliked character is Kate. She has gotten pretty annoying and all she's good for is being held at gunpoint.
For all you "Lost" Diary newbies, here's how it goes. I gather with a group of friends watching "Lost," writing what happens on the show as it happens, and throwing in my two cents along the way. This week the usual crew of Ari, Lauren and Matt is back together -- kinda like Van Halen reuniting, only none of us play any instruments. Let's roll:
10:00 -- Kate wants Sawyer to turn the boat around to go back and rescue Jack (predictable) while Karl is babbling incoherently about God and Jacob. When was the last time Kate said something where she wasn't whining?
10:01 -- Jack thinks the Others plan on killing him now, and he's got every reason to think so. But Henry Gale did promise to send him "home," which I think we all know isn't happening. My prediction: the Others start to send him home, only Locke and Sayid and the rest of them "rescue" him and ruin it. Just a thought.
10:02 -- "Hey." -- Juliet. Things don't look so good for her.
10:06 -- And it's Jack flashback time. Prepare for either daddy issues or dumped by his wife issues.
10:07 -- Or hot Asian woman on the beach issues.
10:08 -- Jack's in Sawyer's cage and apparently the Others have a "sheriff."
10:10 -- Kate and Sawyer are having some post-coital problems, and Karl is kinda creeping me out. But he is full of info, so there's that.
10:12 -- Juliet is trying to get Jack to help Ben as a "personal favor" to her. Other than the fact she's hot, why would we do her a favor? Jack, remember, she's evil.
10:18 -- Oh look, Jack brought up his dad. Didn't see that coming.
10:19 -- "I have a gift." -- Achara. I'm sure that won't come up later.
10:20 -- Isabelle wants to ask Jack a few questions. First impression: she's kind of creepy, but only kind of.
10:21 -- Apparently, Isabelle is "investigating" whether or not Juliet tried to get Jack to kill Henry. I half expected to hear the "Law & Order" sound. What are the odds Jack lies to save Juliet? I am going 80/20 that he does.
10:22 -- What a sap.
10:23 -- Not sure what I think about this Isabelle. Feels like they are trying to force another creepy character on us. The rest of the room thinks she's a transvestite; a tad harsh, I think. What happened to Ms. Klugh?
10:26 -- Well at least Jack scored with Achara. There is a dirty joke here to be made about her "gift," but I'm gonna be the adult here and let it go.
10:28 -- Hey it's Cindy from the back of the plane and she's "there to watch." That doesn't sound good. Oh Cindy, Ana Lucia's dead and she was a bitch, too. Sorry to break it to you.
10:30 -- Karl ran away to hide in the woods and cry and has never heard of "The Brady Bunch." Except for the episode in Hawaii with Vincent Price and the tiki, I wish I had never heard of it either. Lauren wonders why they aren't questioning Karl more. Fair point.
10:32 -- Gotta admit, I am bored as hell. The room is restless and throwing out four-letter words.
10:33 -- Apparently, Alex has daddy issues too. She and Jack will have a lot to talk about.
10:34 -- And Jack wants out of his cage. Maybe now something will actually happen.
10:39 -- "The cavalry has arrived at last." -- Henry Gale. If this were a cheezy 90s sitcom, the studio audience would applaud Henry's first appearance -- it's long overdue.
10:40 -- So Ethan was a surgeon. He kinda looked more like he worked at UPS.
10:41 -- So Jack is going to save Ben to save Juliet. Can a man be (another word for a small cat)-whipped if they haven't even had sex? Grow a pair Jack!
10:42 -- By the way, part of me thinks Jack is lying about the infection just to save Juliet.. Only, again, I don't think he has the cajones.
10:43 -- "My work is not decoration, it is definition." -- Achara. Bit of a letdown on the whole "gift" thing. I wish it had been something dirty.
10:45 -- I think Jack just committed reverse tattoo rape. Never thought I'd coin that phrase.
10:46 -- "He has, however, ordered her to be marked." -- Isabelle. Like a tattoo? Like "The Scarlett Letter"? What kind of mark are we talking about here?
10:50 -- Three things about Jack's beating: 1) His tattoo wasn't complete. 2) Reverse tattoo rape has its consequences. 3) I really thought one of the guys was going to say, "Welcome to Thailand, bitch!" R.I.P. "The O.C."
10:51 -- I was kind of expecting Juliet's "mark" to be like Jack's tattoo, not a branding.
10:54 -- Juliet says they're leaving the island and taking Jack back to where they live. We saw their little village when the plane crashed, so "where they live" shouldn't be a huge surprise. But so many people have mentioned it during the episode, I kinda think it will be.
10:55 -- Sawyer thinks Kate threw him a "I thought you were going to die" lay, and she doesn't appear to be denying it. That's gotta hurt.
10:56 -- So Jack's tattoo says, "He walks amongst us, but he is not one of us." Jack says, "That's what they say, but that's not what they mean." Thanks, Yoda.
10:57 -- Nothing is really happening.
10:58 -- Still nothing.
10:59 -- Huh?
Normally I now do a "What did we learn this week?" But I am too angry for that. What the hell was that? On the heels of one of the best episodes ever, we get a complete and utter waste of an hour. Just a severe, other level disappointment.
According to the promos, we were supposed to get three mysteries solved, but I only counted two: what Jack's tattoo means (like anyone really cared about that!), and why no one watches "Lost" anymore. I can't defend this episode, so I am just going to stop writing about it. Tomorrow's "O.C." finale better be good, or else I will really lose it.
This is the spot where I usually throw out a question to try and spark comments, but it seems futile this week, since every comment will probably be about how much this episode sucked. But if you can come up with anything good that came out of this week, I'd LOVE to hear it. Seriously, anything at all.
(Deep breath ... Come on Daniel, it's just a television show.)
Sorry, normally I am not this negative. So let's try this again. Here is my question to you: If you could pick one word to describe your reaction to tonight's episode, what would it be?
See you next week.
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A storm in the US over a massive $US100 million discrepancy between the winning low bid of Alcatel-Lucent and the losing high bid by Cisco to upgrade California State University's (CSU) network has flowed through to the Australian channel.
Jim Duffy of IDG US publication, Network World, broke the original story in October and then confirmed it in this article on October 25.
The winner of the contract, Alcatel-Lucent, bid $US22 million. Runner-up HP bid $US41 million. Cisco bid just under $US123 million, Duffy reported.
Despite company denials, the difference was $US100 million.
When asked about the price discrepancy, Alcatel Lucent Australia head of channels, Mac Lewis, said this is not the first time he has seen it happen, although he also admits it does not happen that often with large customers like CSU.
Lewis said the local reaction to the situation has been positive, at least from an Alcatel-Lucent perspective.
"It really comes down to the way we architect our solution, as it's not a box for box price reduction," he said.
"There are cost savings over a period of time that come into this."
When it comes to deployment, Lewis said warranties, the efficient reuse of the equipment, and other factors need to be consider, though that adds to the cost.
"The local market didn't comprehend this until this news [about the CSU bid] came out," he said.
"A lot of end customers don't either."
Looking at the up front sale, Lewis admits the price difference is not nearly as large, but customers are now looking at the total cost of ownership.
"They understand how to make that comparison now, so this highlighted the enormous potential difference over a period of time," he said.
Cisco A/NZ was contacted to address the above allegations, though PR manager, Linda Horiuchi, said the vendor does not publicly discuss confidential customer account information, which extends to specific contract or request for proposal information.
Rising up
The CSU bid uproar comes five months after Cisco raised the price on all of its product and services in Australia this year by 9.2 per cent.
At the same time, Lewis said Alcatel-Lucent has not increased its prices.
"When we saw the price increase from Cisco, we offered a promotion to get some interest from the partners," he said.
"We offered to drop some of our prices to make that gap more compelling."
Asked about the price raise in Australia, Cisco's Horiuchi said the vendor periodically reviews price levels on our Australian price list as part of its "regular business review process".
"While earlier this year there was an increase, in the past this process has also led to reduced prices when certain conditions are met," she said.
While Cisco may have been put into the position to explain its higher amount for the CSU deal, Lewis said the situation has translated into a positive impact for Alcatel-Lucent's partners and customers.
"Now they have a good reason to actually go out and seek out a second potential network provider in these large networks," he said.
"They now realise the cost difference could actually be in their favour, and rather than being scared about it costing a lot to retrain service people, redeploy them, and extra equipment."
This, according to Lewis, has prompted customers to look at their strategy and be as open as they can.
"The dynamics at the enterprise have now changed, therefore we have to change," he said.
"We can no longer be with one vendor, so we need that capability to provide a lot more flexibility to the end users."
Partner sustainability
In addition to having trust for a vendor, the other key aspect of a good partnership is having good margins for resellers.
Lewis said one of the strengths Alcatel-Lucent has had over most of its other competitors is that it allows "sustainable, good margins" for partners.
"Not only on the equipment purchase, but since we are 100 per cent channel, we don't go and sell our own maintenance, professional services," he said.
Lewis emphasis that everything is done through a partner, enabling them to "maximise their business return" with the vendor.
"We have a good, loyal base of our large partners, and what I get told a lot is that they can sustain their margin with us," he said.
"You have to do a big turnover with other vendors just to make a similar or close margin," he claimed.
What Alcatel-Lucent tried to do is provide everything partners need in addition to a good margin on the sale, he said.
Providing good annuity revenue, which sustains business and it to grow, is also important.
"You need to have a good sustainable business, and our partners have to be sustainable moving forward," Lewis said.

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Kirsten Dunst had a fun girls' night out at the Chateau Marmont with four friends – including celebrity deejay Samantha Ronson, who was recently spotted hanging out with Sofia Vergara in N.Y.C. The unlikely duo were getting along famously, laughing and telling stories like old friends.
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For the first time since Michael Jackson's death in June 2009, Janet Jackson will visit a late night network talk show when she appears on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" on March 18, Access Hollywood can exclusively reveal.
Janet will join Jay for an interview, however, she will not perform. The musical guest that night will be Australian artist Orianthi, who was actually Michael's lead guitarist during rehearsals for his "This Is It" tour, a trek which sadly never made it to the London stage.
Janet's "Tonight Show" appearance will mark her second network interview since Michael's death after sitting down with ABC's Robin Roberts in November.
Janet is the latest big name NBC has drawn to welcome Jay back to the "Tonight Show."
Jamie Foxx, Lindsey Vonn, Sarah Palin, Apolo Anton Ohno and Adam Lambert have been among the names to grace the stage since Jay's return on March 1. Matthew McConuaghey will appear on Thursday's show. Additionally, Kristen Stewart, Simon Cowell and Kim Kardashian are among the celebrities who will join Jay next week.
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A curious koala escaped its enclosure at the San Diego Zoo Tuesday, spurring a search and eventual stakeout by keepers, zoo officials confirmed.
According to Jenny Mehlow, public relations spokesperson for the San Diego Zoo, the koala – named "Mundu" – somehow made his way out of his habitat. When zookeepers noticed the koala was missing, a search ensued.
Mehlow said keepers eventually found the koala high above in a tree outside the exhibit.
Mehlow said the koala appeared to be in good condition. As of 1 p.m., zookeepers were maintaining a close eye on the animal and planned to wait until the zoo closed for the day to lure him down from the tree. The zoo was set to close at 5 p.m.
By 5:45 p.m., zoo officials said Mundu was back in his exhibit, safe and sound.
Mehlow said Mundu was born in 2012 and is just entering the curious phase of his young life.
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New spring, same mantra for defending champs
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- It was a season of legendary, epic proportions. A team went from worst to first, improved its record by 28 games and then marched on to win the World Series.
In that process, equal parts astounding and pleasant, the Boston Red Sox won their third World Series championship over the last 10 years. They became the first Major League team to win three championships in this century -- or on a grander scale, three championships in this millennium.
Now in Spring Training 2014, the Red Sox are stressing that as much as '13 was a wonderful story and terrific experience, it is time to turn the page and focus completely on '14.
That is, admittedly, easier said than done, particularly when an entire global fan base is telling you just how magnificent you were in 2013. But that is the task at hand for Boston now. The Red Sox can remember how it was done, how much effort it took to climb to the baseball summit from the depths of last place. But they can't let themselves be overcome by a lot of warm and fuzzy feelings of previous glory.
That was manager John Farrell's message to his players when the full squad gathered at JetBlue Park on Thursday.
"To get back to a mindset that was from the first day of Spring Training last year, and not the most recent memory -- which was a great one -- but to recognize that there was a lot of work, a journey that went into getting that final out recorded in Fenway," said Farrell. "I think as you've been around the guys since they've reported, the conversation, the talk is about what we do today and not what's happened previous. In a nutshell, that was probably the overall message."
Just in passing, how did Farrell not win the Manager of the Year Award for the American League last season? What else did he have to do? These are questions that may never be suitably answered.
Nobody has won back-to-back World Series since the Yankees in 1998-2000. Can the Red Sox repeat in an era when baseball's calling card is competitive balance? They're not supposed to repeat, but they defied and overturned expectations by winning last year.
The Red Sox were 7-for-7 in free-agent signings during the 2012-13 offseason. They had a much quieter winter this time, because there was so much less work to be done. They have some questions, but these are questions that appear to have nearby answers.
Boston has a fine rotation in place, plus a core of talented young pitchers in their system knocking on the door. The bullpen is solid and deep. The team's biggest question going into last season was turned into a strength. Juan Nieves made his mark as a pitching coach of the first rank.
OK, the Sox no longer have Jacoby Ellsbury in center. The Yanks do. Jackie Bradley Jr., 23, will have a shot there, and Grady Sizemore, making a deep comeback, could also be in the mix.
If Bradley plays regularly and shortstop is manned by Xander Bogaerts, 21, the Red Sox will be very youthful in two up-the-middle spots. This can often be interpreted as a potential problem. But this will not be an issue with Boston, Farrell said.
"Regardless of the changes, [second baseman] Dustin [Pedroia's] role will remain the same," Farrell said. "He's been a leader of our team up the middle. Whether it's in terms of our positioning, whether it's cutoffs and relays, he's the pivotal guy in all of that.
"But these are players you're talking about, with Jackie and Xander, they understand their positions, they've been good defenders to this point in their careers. Seeing it on a regular basis right now, that's the only difference."
So one year after the Red Sox were trying to recover from a season of despair in 2012, the team is now generating record amounts of goodwill.
"It's certainly a good feeling here at camp," Red Sox president/CEO Larry Lucchino said Friday in a media session. "It's 'Camp Good Vibrations' so far. There is a very good vibe emanating from the place.
"It is only the first few days, and naturally we're on kind of a high and our fans are feeling good. There's not enough of an experience of this Spring Training, so we look backward. But John Farrell worked beautifully at this in the first day's [full-squad] meeting to get people to focus on the here and now; that was then, this is now. "
This is still the AL East, though. Lucchino, when asked about how different the current Red Sox's roster-building direction was from that of the Yankees, jumped on the pitch.
"We're very different animals," Lucchino said. "I'm proud of that difference. I always cringe when people lump us together. Other baseball teams sometimes do that. They are still -- this year at least -- relying heavily on their inimitable, old-fashioned Yankee-style of high-priced, long-term free agents. And I can't say I wish them well, but I think we have taken a different approach."
That was a real Red Sox vibration. You could feel it. One year ago, this team was beginning the long climb back from competitive catastrophe. Today, this same team is standing at the summit, trying to maintain its championship status.


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David Moyes is confident that he will not be sacked despite a woeful debut season in charge of Manchester United.
United suffered their latest disappointment in a wretched season on Sunday when they lost 3-0 to old foes Liverpool at Old Trafford.
That defeat left United seventh in the Barclays Premier League, 14 points adrift of the top four with just nine matches remaining.
It is understood the United board are not considering replacing Moyes at this moment in time, but the crucial support of the club's fans will surely disappear if results and performances do not improve.
Moyes came out fighting against suggestions he is living on borrowed time, telling a press conference ahead of Wednesday's Champions League last-16 second leg against Olympiacos at Old Trafford: "My future has not changed one bit.
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Recent conversations with his predecessor Sir Alex Ferguson, and other leading members of the board have given the former Everton manager the feeling that he remains secure in his position.
"(Ferguson) has been incredibly supportive," Moyes said
"I speak with him regularly and I see him at the games.
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"That is why they gave me a six-year contract because this is not a club that works on a short-term vision, it works on a long-term vision."
Nothing typified United's underwhelming season as much as the 2-0 defeat to Olympiacos three weeks ago.
The Greeks had lost all four previous meetings with United, but a team containing unheralded Greek players, ageing South Americans and an Arsenal loanee had no trouble rolling over Moyes' team.
Only five teams in the last 22 years have overturned a deficit of two goals or more in the competition.
The last time United achieved such a feat was 30 years ago against Barcelona.
The odds may be stacked against his team, but Moyes has not given up hope of qualifying for the quarter-finals even though Sunday's defeat to Liverpool piled even more pressure on the manager.
"When you lose in the fashion we did to one of our biggest rivals, there is always a lot of disappointment," the Scot said.
"But the first thing I mentioned to the players after the game was that we need to start giving something back, we need to start performing together to get a performance and give (the fans) a night to remember.
"It is not something that has happened a lot but it is something we believe we have to make happen.
"The players know they can play better and hopefully they can show it tomorrow night."
Moyes will be without defenders Chris Smalling (hamstring) and Jonny Evans (calf) while Juan Mata is cup-tied.
Interestingly, Moyes confirmed that little-used midfielder Shinji Kagawa will feature at some point.
Unlike United, Olympiacos have had little trouble defending their domestic title this year.
A 2-0 win over Panthrakikos on Saturday ensured Olympiacos won the Greek Super League with five matches to spare.
Although the gulf in class between the English and Greek leagues is massive, Moyes is still fearful of Olympiacos and he knows his team cannot afford to go behind.
"It is really important we score first," Moyes said.
"When we do go in front we don't tend to lose games. We have to be careful, Olympiacos are a good team with good players and we have to be careful we are not broken on the counter attack."


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Music festival canceled in NYC over drug concerns
The last day of a New York City dance music festival featuring high-profile acts including Avicii, David Guetta and Diplo has been canceled over drug-related health concerns.
The city says it recommended Electric Zoo festival not continue Sunday after two attendees died and four others had to be hospitalized during the first two days of performances on Friday and Saturday. The festival took place on Randall's Island in the East River.
The city says the deaths appear to have been linked to drugs, specifically MDMA, or ecstasy. Definitive causes of death have not yet been determined.
The event's founders expressed condolences on its website to the families of those who died.
The festival has been held since 2009.


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Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka on Friday dismissed calls for peace negotiations with the radical Islamist sect known as Boko Haram and said Nigerian society is at stake in what he described as a war for survival.
Nigeria's northeast remains under almost daily attack by the sect, which is blamed for killing more than 740 people this year alone, according to an Associated Press count. Three police officers died in an apparent bombing carried out by the sect in Yobe state early Friday morning, officials said.
Soyinka, a 78-year-old playwright and essayist, was once marked for death by one Nigerian military ruler. He has both has feuded with and befriended others. Africa's most populous nation now has a civilian government, though the military remains a powerful behind-the-scenes force.
Despite his often strained relations with his country's military, Soyinka said the military go after Boko Haram while avoiding civilian casualties.
He acknowledged that grinding poverty in Nigeria's north gave rise to Boko Haram, but said negotiating with "mass murderers" would not end the cycle of violence tearing at the country. He also suspects that crooked politicians had a role in Boko Haram's early rise.
Politicians who wanted to rig elections "activated this brainwashed horde of religious militants. That's how it started," Soyinka told foreign journalists in Lagos. Boko Haram members then "looked at those who unleashed them and they realized they were being manipulated. ... And now they are completely out of control."
Boko Haram, which means "Western education is sacrilege" in the Hausa language of Nigeria's Muslim north, has carried out shootings and bombings targeting both Christians and Muslims. The sect continues to kill despite a heavy military presence and says it will stop only if the government strictly implements Shariah law and frees its imprisoned members.
Soyinka called the prospect of the government engaging in peace talks "abysmal appeasement."
"The issue has become a security issue in which the question becomes: who goes down? Is (it) the community, the nation, the society that goes down or is it a bunch of killers who are totally beyond control?"
In its fight against Boko Haram, Nigeria's military has killed dozens of civilians in reprisal attacks after its own soldiers died. Soyinka said the Nigerian military likely had committed "violations of fundamental human rights" in its assaults and that innocent people have been killed. However, he said soldiers had begun to refine their tactics and rely more on intelligence gathering rather "than just a blitzkrieg approach."
"This is a new problem with the military," Soyinka said. "They have never had to cope with this kind of insurgency. So the military itself is making a lot of blunders."
Soyinka won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986, the first African honored with the award.


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New York in bloom: April is the prettiest month
April in Paris may be romantic, but there's no need to cross the ocean for springtime magic. New York in April is another city worth singing about, awakened from winter hibernation in a rush of spring blossoms and high spirits. Few cities can boast more lavish floral displays, including those atop the hats in the event that inspired New York's own musical classic, America's most joyous Easter Parade.
There is no more colorful or whimsical display than this annual stroll down Fifth Avenue. The parade dates back to the 1880s, when the Avenue's grand churches such as St. Patrick's Cathedral and St. Thomas' Episcopal Church began decorating for Easter with lavish floral displays.
Taking their cue from the indoor displays, well-to-do ladies began decorating their own bonnets with flowers and parading between churches to show off their finery. Pretty soon spectators were gathering to see the hats, and as the procession gained popularity, merchants saw the marketing opportunity to promote new finery for everyone for Easter. The parade became a city tradition and in 1933 inspired Irving Berlin to write his great song, Easter Parade.
Today everyone (and their pets) dons a hat and joins New York's parade. The wackier the finery, the better. Huge floral displays and even live birds and rabbits have been known to adorn the hats. The impromptu Easter Sunday show begins this year at 10 a.m. on April 20 and runs until 3 or 4 p.m. from 49th to 57th Streets.
Happily, the date coincides with the height of real spring blossoms throughout the city's great gardens. Those who don't think of Manhattan as a garden spot will surely change their minds with a visit to Central Park's Conservatory Garden, where three exquisite designs await behind a grand iron gate at Fifth Avenue between 104th and 105th Streets.
The Center Garden is in Italianate style, with a large lawn bordered by exquisite allées of pale pink and white crabapple trees. At the end of the lawn is a 12-foot-high fountain, a favorite backdrop for wedding pictures, with stairs beyond leading to a wisteria-covered pergola.
Paths lead to a French-style garden to the north, with lavish displays of spring tulips in myriad colors and the charming Three Dancing Maidens fountain. To the south, an intimate English-style garden has seasonal flowerbeds lush with spring bulbs, ringing a water lily pool where a charming statue of a girl and a boy pays tribute to Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of The Secret Garden.
The rest of the park has its own show, some 500 Japanese cherry trees, pale pink Yoshino trees and rosy-hued Kwanzan varieties lighting the landscape in clouds of blossoms. The trees are especially lovely along the reservoir, near the boathouse and on aptly named Cherry Hill.
Romantics will find plenty of inspiration in Central Park, whether on a carriage ride beneath the blossoms or a gondola ride from the Loeb Boathouse, with skyscraper views beyond the trees.
An even more spectacular cherry fantasy blooms each year at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, where the entire month of April is dedicated to Hanami, a Japanese celebration of the cherry blossom. The garden boasts weeping cherry trees and a dazzling parade of double pink blossoms bordering its Cherry Tree Esplanade.
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The culmination is the weekend festival known in Japanese as "Sakura Matsuri," set for April 26 and 27 this year. It is a celebration of traditional and contemporary Japanese culture with events including Taiko Drumming, martial arts, folk dances, Manga artists, tea ceremonies, a fashion show, bonsai demonstrations and origami workshops for kids.
A trip to the Bronx Botanic Garden provides one of the more spectacular seasonal spectacles. Some 350 varieties of daffodils and bulbs erupt in a sea of yellow and white on Daffodil Hill, backed by 80 varieties of trees dressed in showy reds and pinks in the Bruckmann Crabapple Collection. The Azalea Garden offers some 3,000 azaleas and rhododendrons from around the world, winding along nearly a mile of woodland paths, thick with ribbons of white, pink, coral and magenta.
The High Line, Manhattan's former overhead railway turned delightful city park, also is abloom, this time with wildflowers in the natural gardens that run from its beginning at Gansevoort Street (12th Street) all the way to 30th Street. Visitors can join New Yorkers enjoying the first warm spring days, strolling or relaxing on the lounges amid water features that line the walkway.
Of course, April showers do sometimes mean spending time indoors, but New York's museums beckon on a rainy day.
The New York Historical Society at 170 Central Park West has several exhibits this year that liven springtime in the city. Bill Cunningham: Façades, on view through June 15 will feature the noted New York Times fashion photographer's eight-year project documenting the architectural riches and fashion history of New York City. The gelatin silver prints pair models in authentic period costumes with historic New York settings, such as St. Paul's Chapel, Grand Central Terminal and Rockefeller Center.
Audubon's Aviary, through May 26, showcases the society's unparalleled collection of John James Audubon watercolors and includes some of the artist's most famous floral and bird paintings.
The Museum of Arts and Design marks its fifth anniversary at 2 Columbus Circle with exceptional exhibits. Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital through July 6 is the first major museum exhibition to explore the many areas of 21st century creativity made possible by computer-assisted techniques. Inspired, on display through October, offers an overview of works that have joined the MAD collections since the opening of the building in 2008.
Indoors or out, New York in April is worth singing about.


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She serves on the Advisory Board of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, and has served on California's Blue Ribbon Task Force on Nanotechnology and the Editorial Advisory Board of NASA's Nanotech Briefs.
She has often directed Foresight Conferences on Molecular Nanotechnology, organized Foresight Institute Feynman Prizes, and chaired Foresight Vision Weekends.
She lectures on nanotechnology to a wide variety of audiences, focusing on making this complex field understandable, and on clarifying the difference between near-term commercial advances and the "Next Industrial Revolution" arriving in the next few decades.
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Wearing her for-profit hat, she chairs the Personalized Life Extension Conference series. In 1991 she coauthored Unbounding the Future: the Nanotechnology Revolution (Morrow, full text online), which sketches nanotechnology's potential environmental and medical benefits as well as possible abuses. An interest in group process led to coauthoring Leaping the Abyss: Putting Group Genius to Work (knOwhere Press, 1997, full text online) with Gayle Pergamit.
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Amir Bar-Lev's "The Tillman Story" is a riveting account of how a soldier's death in Afghanistan was spun into a web of public lies. When pro football star turned post-9/11 Army enlistee Pat Tillman was killed in the course of duty, the embarrassing actual circumstances were covered up and turned into a flag-waving story of heroism that the Bush administration happily — and knowingly — used for propaganda purposes. The Tillman family's refusal to accept the official story led to disgraceful admissions — yet, so far, no repercussions for those who perpetrated the lie. Theatrical, broadcast and further fest exposure are assured.
Told much more via straight reportage than Bar-Lev's fascinating "My Kid Could Paint That," "The Tillman Story" mixes talking heads and archival footage into a detective story of escalatingly scandalous proportions. No matter one's political bent, the blatant misconduct by grunts, senior officers and politicos alike is terribly disturbing.
Small (at 5'10") by football standards, but an all-star defensive back, Tillman walked away from his multimillion-dollar contract with the Arizona Cardinals in May 2002, clearly feeling some moral duty yet refusing to discuss his motivations publicly. Younger brother Kevin also joined the Army Rangers, winding up in the same platoon.
Even beyond his sports celebrity, Tillman was an unusual enlistee — a fan of Noam Chomsky, he'd excelled academically as well as athletically, hailing from a Northern California family that instilled old-school liberal values. He was outspoken yet modest — a natural leader who never bullied and enjoyed encouraging underdogs. (The only person who casts doubt on his character here is, suspiciously, the sole platoon member who still sticks by the Army's latest official story.)
Tillman also opposed the war in Iraq, and was further disillusioned by what he saw in his first tour of duty there. Nonetheless, he refused a secret deal between the government and NFL that would have allowed an early return to football, feeling it his duty to serve the full three years signed up for. His second tour was in Afghanistan, and during a reconnaissance sweep along the Pakistan border, he was shot to death.
The Army's story — initially believed by the Tillman family and leapt on by the media — was that he'd heroically put himself in the line of Taliban fire to save other soldiers during an ambush.
But even as the tale was exploited to drum up support for the war, questionable details troubled the Tillmans. Mother Dannie's dogged pursuit of answers only raised more questions; finally, the Army admitted that Tillman might have died via accidental "fratricide," or friendly fire. It's possible there were no enemy insurgents present at all.
It was only when father Pat Sr. wrote a letter accusing the military of fraud that a second internal investigation was launched. As the pic notes, however, high-level officials simply found a midlevel scapegoat, then seemingly lied their way through a Congressional hearing, and excused themselves from further culpability. While precise circumstances may never be known. Tillman's death appears to be the result of gross negligence at best, and perhaps far worse than that, with the most damning account relating that a fellow solder — or soldiers — shot at Tillman for up to a full minute, from a plain-sight distance of 40 yards.
It's an appalling story, yet at the same time somehow affirming: The unconventional Tillmans are an admirable bunch, and in choosing the wrong family to lie to, authorities wound up exposed, albeit largely unpunished.
While no senior officers — except the one scapegoated — speak in the archival clips, most of Tillman's fellow soldiers give damning testimony of the official story. Retired special-ops Stan Goff provides insight into how the U.S. military can use bureaucracy, language and evasion to bury uncomfortable truths.
Assembly is first-rate. Pic was retitled just before Sundance from its awkward original, "I'm Pat _______ Tillman." That phrase, with missing expletive, constituted the subject's last words as he yelled to identify himself to those shooting at him.


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His name is Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad and he won gold in the 3,000 meter steeplechase at the European athletics championship held in Helsinki. After crossing the finish line he stalked over to some tiny mascot, slapped something out of its hands and shoved it out of the way. Information provided by the YouTube uploader suggests the mascot was a 14-year-old girl.
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MANILA, Philippines, April 11 (UPI) -- A Filipino court ordered Imelda Marcos, former Phillipines first lady, to repay nearly $280,000 she allegedly took illegally from the National Food Authority.
The anti-graft court gave Marcos 30 days to refund the money.
The Philippine Daily Inquirer said Monday the total includes $232,000 in rebates issued by Philippine National Lines, the NFA's shipping company, and deposited in a private account in 1983 on orders from Imelda Marcos's husband, Ferdinand Marcos, who was president of the Phillipines from 1965 to 1986. He died in 1989.
The court also asked for more than $46,000 for what the newspaper called moral damages and litigation fees.
Imelda Marcos is now a representative of Ilocos Norte, a Filipino province and the birthplace of her late husband.


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Doug Noland over at Prudent Bear had some more good insights on the government finance bubble in his weekly update. I'm going to be doing some thinking and research on how a bond market dislocation might unfold and what impact it would have on different markets. To be honest Ben Bernanke (BB) buying T's caught me off guard. In hindsight I was an idiot for not seeing it coming seeing as how we have followed the UK's lead in much of our approach to the crisis and their QE (Quantitative Easing) was initially well received by the market place [as in not for long]. That's all water under the bridge now, though. The trick now is to figure out how QE is going to impact markets.
At the same time I want to get ahead of the curve and start thinking about what a bond market dislocation would look like. I've already got my line in the sand off the 50 year TNX (10 year Treasuries). Break the top of the descending channel we've been in for the last 20 plus years and the bond bull is officially dead. Note, though, the scale of the chart… we could still be years away from breaking that line. My guess is when it does finally break it will be on a day remembered by history. 30 year bull runs in the world's largest asset class don't end in a whimper. I find the symmetry of this chart quite interesting, too.
I also have a new motto. Buying TBT [selling treasuries] is the most patriotic thing you can do if you want to see America survive and have a chance at a prosperous future. The only thing that is going to stop the government from digging us in deeper is if the bond market finally reigns the government in. The sooner it dislocates and exposes the myth that "deficits don't matter" the better. Right now we are just layering misallocation of resources on top of previous misallocations making the painful adjustment, which is going to happen anyway, exponentially more damaging.
Past a certain damage threshold our economic system and society won't make it in its current form. We might have even already crossed the line [Nate says we are already there], but let's be optimistic and say we haven't. Your job as an American is to go out and make that dislocation happen now. Force our government to face reality and own up to all the lies it has told us based on voodoo Ponzi economics. How can you do this? Sell your treasury holdings, tell your friends to sell their treasury holdings. Don't lend money to a dead beat creditor. The sooner you cut the dead beat off, the better it is for BOTH of you. You can also help make the bond market implosion happen. Buy TBT and use your money to sell short other peoples treasuries for them. Do it for your country.
Okay, the sales pitch for TBT may be extreme, but the point remains that it's in our best long-term interest for the markets to call BB's bluff right now. It's Helicopter Ben versus The Bond Vigilantes. And Benny fired the first shot on Wednesday before the vigilantes did so much as push rates ALL the way up to 3% TNX, a multi-decade low up until a few weeks ago. The Vigilantes (all T holders) need to stand right back up and kick Ben in the nuts repeatedly by relentlessly selling all of their Ts until interest rates compensate them for the risk of dilution of the underlying (dollar) based on the whims of one guy or institution. Anybody who doesn't sell their Ts is a sucker.
I've also now completed my Presidential platform. Bankruptcy for all, dislocate the bond market, and to make the pain not seem so bad, legalize pot.
- DoctorMad
Wow, Doc, that's quite the platform, I'm sure election for you is right around the corner – lol!
Of course everyone may not fully understand this sell America's debt mantra like we do. I get it, you want the bond market to force discipline on our politicians. That, unfortunately, is very likely to happen now.
For those not familiar, TBT is the ETF that works double opposite of bond market price – 2x short bonds. Of course, being an ETF, it does not directly influence the bond market, and thus buying TBT does not affect the ability of our government to issue debt. They are destroying that ability all by themselves, but selling treasuries definitely does have an effect. And it's going to happen, and it's very likely to get way out of control as Doug Nolan apparently agrees…
Mistakes Beget Greater Mistakes
March 18 – Bloomberg (Kathleen Hays and Dakin Campbell): "Bill Gross, co-chief investment officer of Pacific Investment Management Co., said the Federal Reserve's purchases of Treasuries and mortgage securities won't be enough to awaken the economy. 'We need more than that,' Gross said… The Fed's balance sheet 'will probably have to grow to about $5 trillion or $6 trillion,' he said."
"The problem with discretionary central banking is that it virtually ensures that policy mistakes will be followed by only greater mistakes." Here, I'm paraphrasing insight garnered from my study of central banking history. Naturally, debating the proper role of central bank interventions - in both the financial sector and real economy – becomes a much more passionate exercise following boom and bust cycles. The "Rules vs. Discretion" debate became especially heated during the Great Depression. It was understood at the time that our fledgling central bank had played an activist role in fueling and prolonging the twenties boom - that presaged The Great Unwind. Along the way, this critical analysis was killed and buried without a headstone.
I believe the Bernanke Fed committed a historic mistake this week – compounding ongoing errors made by the Activist Greenspan/Bernanke Federal Reserve for more than 20 years now. I find it rather incredible that Discretionary Activist Central Banking is not held accountable – and that it is, instead, viewed as critical for a solution. Apparently, the inflation of Federal Reserve Credit to $2.0 TN was judged to have had too short of a half-life. So the Fed is now to balloon its liabilities to $3.0 TN, as it implements unprecedented market purchases of Treasuries, mortgage-backed securities, and agency and corporate debt securities. And what if $3.0 TN doesn't go the trick? Well, why not the $5 or $6 TN Bill Gross is advocating?
What's the holdup?
Washington fiscal and monetary policies are completely out of control. Apparently, the overarching objective has evolved to one of rejuvenating the securities and asset markets and inciting quick economic recovery. I believe the principal objective should be to avoid bankrupting the country. It is also my view that our policymakers and pundits are operating from flawed analytical frameworks and are, thus, completely oblivious to the risks associated with the current course of policymaking.
Today's consensus view holds that inflation is the primary risk emanating from aggressive fiscal and monetary stimulation. It is believed that this risk is minimal in our newfound deflationary backdrop. Moreover, if inflation does at some point rear its ugly head the Fed will simply extract "money" from the system and guide the economy back to "the promised land of price stability." Wording this flawed view somewhat differently, inflation is not an issue - and our astute central bankers are well-placed to deal with inflation if it ever unexpectedly does become a problem.
Our federal government has set a course to issue Trillions of Treasury securities and guarantee multi-Trillions more of private-sector debt. The Federal Reserve has set its own course to balloon its liabilities as it acquires Trillions of securities. After witnessing the disastrous financial and economic distortions wrought from Trillions of Wall Street Credit inflation (securities issuance), it is difficult for me to accept the shallowness of today's analysis. In reality, the paramount risk today has very little to do with prospective rates of consumer price inflation. Instead, the critical issue is whether the Treasury and Federal Reserve have set a mutual course that will destroy their creditworthiness - just as Wall Street finance destroyed theirs. Additionally, what are the economic ramifications for ongoing market price distortions?
The counterargument would be that Treasury and Fed stimulus are short-term in nature – necessary to revive the private-sector Credit system, asset markets and the real economy. That, once the economy is revived, fiscal deficits and Fed Credit will recede. I will try to briefly explain why I believe this is flawed and incredibly dangerous analysis.
First of all, for some time now global financial markets and economies have operated alongside an unrestrained and rudderless global monetary "system" (note: not much talk these days of "Bretton Woods II"). There is no gold standard - no dollar standard – no standards. I have in the past referred to "Global Wildcat Finance," and such language remains just as appropriate today. Finance has been created in tremendous overabundance – where the capacity for this "system" to expand finance/Credit in unlimited supplies has completely distorted the pricing for borrowings. As an example, while Total US Mortgage Credit growth jumped from $314bn in 1997 to about $1.4 TN by 2005, the cost of mortgage borrowings actually dropped. It didn't seem to matter to anyone that supply and demand dynamics no longer impacted the price of finance. Yet such a dysfunctional marketplace (spurred by unrestrained Credit expansion) was fundamental in accommodating Wall Street's self-destruction.
Today, the markets will lend to the Treasury for three months at 21 bps, 2 years at 84 bps and 30 years at 371 bps. I would argue that this is a prime example of a dysfunctional market's latest pricing distortion. As it did with the Mortgage Finance Bubble, the marketplace today readily accommodates the Government Finance Bubble. And while on the topic of mortgage finance, the Fed's prodding has borrowing costs back below 5%. This cost of finance also grossly under-prices Credit and other risks.
I would argue that market pricing for government and mortgage finance remains highly distorted – a pricing system maligned by government intervention on top of layers of previous government interventions. These contortions become only more egregious, and I warn that our system will not actually commence its adjustment and repair phase until some semblance of true market pricing returns to the marketplace. Yet policymaking has placed peddle to the metal in the exact opposite direction.
The real economy must shift away from a finance and "services" structure – the system of "trading financial claims for things" – to a more balanced system where predominantly "things are traded for other things." Such a transition is fundamental, as our system commences the unavoidable shift to an economy that operates on much less Credit of much greater quality. But for now, today's Washington-induced distorted marketplace fosters government and mortgage Credit expansion – an ongoing massive inflation of non-productive Credit. I would argue this is tantamount to a continuation of Bubble Dynamics that have for years misallocated financial and real resources. In short, today's flagrant market distortions will not spur the type of true economic wealth creation necessary to service and extinguish previous debts – not to mention the Trillions and Trillions more in the pipeline.
Market confidence in the vast majority of private-sector Credit has been lost. This Bubble has burst, and the mania in "Wall Street finance" has run its course. The private sector's capacity to issue trusted ("money-like") liabilities has been greatly diminished. The hope is that Treasury stimulus and Federal Reserve monetization will resuscitate private Credit creation; that confidence in these types of instruments will return. I would counter that once government interventions come to severely distort a marketplace it is a very arduous process to get the government out and private Credit back in (just look at the markets for mortgage and student loan finance!). This is a major, major issue.
The marketplace today wants to buy what the government has issued or guaranteed (explicitly and implicitly). Market operators also want to buy what our government is going to buy. In particular, the market absolutely adores Treasuries, agency MBS, and GSE debt. There is no chance that such a system will effectively allocate resources. There is today no prospect that such a financial structure will spur the necessary economic overhaul. None.
There is indeed great hope policymakers will succeed in preserving the current economic structure. On the back of massive stimulus and monetization, the expectation is that the financial system and asset prices will stabilize. The economy will be, it is anticipated, not far behind. And the seductive part of this view is that unprecedented policy measures may actually be able to somewhat rekindle an artificial boom – perhaps enough even to appear to stabilize the system. But seeming "stabilization" will be in response to massive Washington stimulus and market intervention – and will be dependent upon ongoing massive government stimulus and intervention. It's called a debt trap. The Great Hyman Minsky would view it as the ultimate "Ponzi Finance."
As I've argued on these pages, our highly inflated and distorted system requires $2.0 TN or so of Credit creation to hold implosion at bay. It is my belief that this will ONLY be possible with Trillion-plus annual growth in both Treasury debt and Federal Reserves liabilities. Private sector Credit creation simply will not bounce back sufficiently to play much of a role. Mortgage, consumer, and business Credit – in this post-Bubble environment - will not re-emerge as much of a force for getting total system Credit near this $2 TN bogey. In this post-Bubble backdrop, only government finance has a sufficient inflationary bias to get Trillion-plus issuance. But the day that policymakers try to extract themselves from massive stimulus and monetization will be the day they risk an immediate erosion of confidence and a run on both government and private Credit instruments. Also as I've written, once the government "printing press" gets revved up it's very difficult to slow it down. This week currency markets finally took this threat seriously.
Let's face it... it's time America gazed in it's looking glass, we're not a child anymore...
Styx – Suite Madame Blue (America Patriotic):
Red white and blue, gaze in your looking glass
You're not a child anymore
Red, white, and blue, the future is all but past
So lift up your heart, make a new start
And lead us away from here...


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Growing material testing company holds job fair in Springdale
Job seekers turned out Wednesday in Springdale for a job fair.
Dozens of people went to The Healing Center for a job fair put together by the Super Jobs Center. The company that's looking to hire is Element Materials Technology, a nationwide company that is expanding its operations in the Cincinnati area.
General Manager Matt Webb told WLWT News 5's Andrew Setters that the company does a lot of materials testing.
"The tests that we do have a direct impact on whether or not parts go into aircraft, into power generators, into biomedical devices that are going into people's bodies," Webb said.
Because of that, Webb said the company is looking for people who have a lot of interest in math and science and who are interested in doing quality work.
The company is hiring for nearly two dozen positions, many of which are entry level positions.
Test technicians, maintenance technicians, calibration technicians and data analysis are the job positions currently open.
Element Materials Technology says they are looking for dependable people with mechanical aptitude and they provide six months of on-the-job training for new hires.
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Prince William Spends New Year's Morning in Daring Rescue Effort
The heir to the throne tried to rescue a man who had been swept out to sea.
Jan. 2, 2013 -- While the rest of the world was ringing in 2013, the heir to the British throne was trying to rescue a man who had been swept out to sea in northwest England.
It was just 15 minutes after midnight in England when the call came in that an unnamed 41-year-old man walking his dog on a pier was had been swept into the sea. Prince William, a helicopter search and rescue pilot in the Royal Air Force, was in the air within a minute, battling 50 mile per hour winds as the frantic 90-minute hunt.
The future king has always been willing to give up personal time with his pregnant wife -- who was, at that moment, celebrating New Years with her family -- for a job that's essential.
"It's great because you get to go out and save someone's life – hopefully -- or at least make a difference to someone when you know they're in trouble. You do everything you can to try and get there," Prince William said in an April, 2011 interview with the BBC.
It was 13 months ago when the prince was seen in a 2 a.m. rescue as a cargo ship shattered and nearly sank. In high winds, William and a crew hovered above the rough seas and winched a rescuer down to bring two sailors to safety.
"It's rewarding because every day you come into work and you don't know what's going to happen. It's quite exciting," William said in April 2011. "It's unpredictable."
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Members of the Memory Makers Quilt Guild and the Beachside Quilters of Flagler Beach know a few things about putting pieces together.
Members of the Memory Makers Quilt Guild and the Beachside Quilters of Flagler Beach know a few things about putting pieces together. This time, they are putting them together for wounded warriors.
The groups are teaming up with the Quilts of Valor Foundation, a national quilting organization that makes blankets for wounded U.S. military personnel. Flagler County resident Nelson Acevedo, a Vietnam veteran, will be the recipient of the foundation's hard work this year.
Wounded during the Vietnam War, Nelson walks about two miles in his neighborhood every day. His positive attitude is an inspiration to those he meets.
"It has changed his life, his service to his country. You send them (the quilts) to people you don't know and say, 'gee, he's someone we know and he's never been recognized,' " said Peggy Manley, one of Nelson's neighbors.
"He doesn't let it interfere with his life," Manley said.
Eighty blocks of fabric were sewn by the groups and sent to a long-arm quilter in Jacksonville, said quilter Marie Garelli.
Manley and Garelli, who are also neighbors and best friends, share their love of quilting.
Manley has been sewing since she was a little girl and remembers going to quilting bees with her grandmother in a church basement. She got involved with Quilts of Valor a few years back. Already a member of the Memory Makers, she brought the national organization to Palm Coast. In its fourth year running, the Palm Coast branch has delivered more than 200 quilts, with many going to Haley Veterans Hospital in Tampa.
"These go specifically to the acute unit, those just back from a field hospital or from Landstal in Germany," Manley said. "They are severely injured, mostly from head trauma."
Manley is responsible for coordinating the projects and delivering the quilts. The experience of delivering the quilts to the wounded soldiers is very moving, several quilters said. A priest blesses the quilts before they are distributed.
Manley describes bringing quilts to a blind soldier who couldn't see the quilt but just kept rubbing it and was so appreciative.
Garelli told a story about another soldier who was wounded during his last tour of duty. The quilt came to him and made such a difference in his life, his mother sent a thank-you note to Garelli.
"It meant something to him and his mom wrote to me," she said. "It's a chain reaction. People helping people. One person touches a life and because of it that person touches another life."
All of the fabric used for the quilts is either paid for directly by the quilter or through donations to the groups.
Memory Makers Quilting Guild is open to the public and group members hope to spread interest in quilting around the community. They contribute to the Family Life Center, the Flagler Humane Society and the local 4-H Club. To encourage young folks to learn the skills, they offer a 4-H Kids Sewing Workshop during the summer.
"It is a part of history in this nation," Garelli said. "Look at the important part it played in the Civil War. They had signal quilts, they sewed uniforms, and Betsy Ross... We hope it doesn't lose its place because of what it has meant in the past."
The group's next project is to make quilts for victims of Superstorm Sandy.
The Memory Makers meet at 9:30 a.m. the first Wednesday of each month at the Flagler County Extension Agency in Bunnell.


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The Solarflower is an open source solar energy collector which tracks the sun automatically through a simple non-electrical mechanism.
It can be made almost anywhere from common recycled and salvaged materials using basic tools and skills, is portable, has no running costs or emissions, and can produce up to kilowatts of power per device.
Depending on available resources it should take one to three unskilled people less than a week to build, and cost under $100.
Potential examples of use could include:
- Electrical production with simple steam turbine/piston, with waste heat going to oven or hot water system.
- Dome oven with integrated water system for temperature regulation and hot/pasteurized water.
- Steam distillation of water for removal of chemical, heavy metal, and biological toxins.
- Medium to large scale food dehydration, processing, and roasting.
- Conversion of fibrous organic waste into charcoal for energy storage and low smoke cooking, with coproduction of bio-oil and bio-gas.
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Often, sinus and allergy ailments are connected to multiple health issues. That's why we do more than treat your symptoms — we identify the underlying condition that's causing them. Our comprehensive program offers you the benefits of multidisciplinary expertise to diagnose and treat your condition, thoroughly and accurately.
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For many patients, the optimum treatment involves surgery. In the past, surgical options were painful and required extensive recuperation and recovery time. Now, new minimally invasive surgical procedures involve far less trauma, which shortens your recovery time significantly. You'll also experience less pain and scarring, enabling you to resume your normal activities much sooner.
Physicians on staff at The Woodlands are experts at practicing minimally invasive nasal surgery, including computer image-guided surgery and Relieva Balloon Sinuplasty™.
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Mitt Romney may be unsure which hat to wear when it comes to General Motors. In a Detroit News article this week, the Republican presidential candidate exhorted President Barack Obama's administration to offload Uncle Sam's holding in the automaker, which reported fourth-quarter earnings on Thursday. That may be Political Romney's take, but selling now would leave taxpayers with a hefty loss. That's a hit Private Equity Romney would surely avoid.
Romney is right that governments should try not to hold long-term positions in private companies. So if the U.S. government were to sell its 32 percent of the Detroit automaker immediately, that would superficially satisfy Romney's belief in free-market capitalism.
But at Wednesday's closing share price, doing so would leave taxpayers shouldering a $14 billion loss on their GM investment – almost a third of what Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama poured in to keep the company on the road. Not only would crystallizing that loss offend Romney with his private equity background. It's also a sure bet that Romney the presidential candidate would have pounced on it as evidence of Obama's fiscal irresponsibility.
Of course, it's not quite the same as a private equity investment – price shouldn't trump everything else. The U.S. government invested in GM, Chrysler and hundreds of banks to keep them afloat, not to make a profit. Even so, it isn't hard for the government to explain why it's OK that it still holds a significant stake 15 months after GM went public.
Executive pay aside, officials have not interfered with the automaker's business; the fact that its investment has largely been a non-issue for months speaks to that. And the Treasury has proved adept at getting out of other bailout positions relatively quickly and at a profit – just the kind of responsible approach Romney advocates. That should give non-partisans comfort that the GM stake is receiving the same treatment.
There's also a reasonable case that GM's market value will rise over the next year or more as it continues working on its turnaround, especially in its loss-making European operations. If Romney finds himself in the Oval Office next year and he's able to sell the GM stake at a profit, both his political and private equity personas will find it hard to resist taking the credit.


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KooRaRoo Media has been updated to version 1.6.1 and is now available for you to download and install.
The new and enhanced features include:
- New: Extract embedded subtitles from files and burn them in for devices that don't support embedded subtitles.
- New: Added a "quick filter" box to the GUI that allows to very quickly narrow down the listing of any playlist.
- New: Added support for looking up movies in IMDB (experimental).
- New: Added an option to adjust the slideshow delay when using "play to" with photos.
- New: Allow adding a whole playlist to the "play to" queue by right-clicking on it in the media library tree.
- Improved: Improved detection of certain possible incompatible files.
- Improved: Improved transcoding overrides.
- New devices: Sony Google TV box (NSZ-GS7).
- Device improvements: Panasonic BDPs, Topfield TRF-2400.
- Fixed: DVD aspect ratio and certain DVD encoding.
- Fixed: DMR (digital media renderer) detection and recognition.
- Fixed: Processing of certain external subtitle files.
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Leap Day is a weird thing isn't it? I remember when I was little thinking it would be infinitely cool if I was born on Leap Day. Simultaneously, I was really upset by the idea of only getting a birthday cake once every 4 years. If you recall back to this post, you'll remember how obsessed I am with my birthday cake!
All I know for sure is that Leap Year should be an extra day on the weekend! Every 4 years, we should get another long weekend. You can take your extra Wednesday, rotation of the Earth. I don't need it!
So there's that. Let's make some twice baked potatoes and call it dinner.
CHEESY BROCCOLI 2x BAKED POTATOES
Recipe adapted from Rachael Ray
4 big russet potatoes
olive oil
salt & pepper
1 head of broccoli
1/2 c. sour cream
1 c. cream or half & half
1 1/2 c. shredded cheddar
1. Preheat oven to 425.
2. Poke several holes into potatoes with a fork. Place on a baking sheet. Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Bake for about 45-60 minutes depending on the size of the potatoes (check them by poking with a fork to see if they are soft enough).
4. Cut potatoes in half hot dog way and scoop out the insides (don't get too close to the skin, so you won't break through it).
5. Add potatoes, sour cream, cream and 1 c. cheese to an electric mixer. Combine all ingredients. Stir in cooked and drained broccoli.
6. Spoon potato/broccoli mix back into potato skins. Top with reserved cheese and bake for another 10 minutes (until the cheese is melted).


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Jelly Collapse
Tap jelly buttons of similar color to remove then. You will be rewarded with bonus points, bombs, free refills and a lot of interesting levels!
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Collect delicious fruits and feed them to the cute panda in this free online game! Tap and hold to connect the fruits and release to finally collect them and let the panda enjoy the glorious, juicy fruitiness. You can connect fruits of the same type diagonally or in a straight line and should strive to to harvest the longest chains possible, as you receive bonus points and more time if you manage to connect more than five fruits at a time. In each level you have to collect a number of different fruits to make the panda happy and of course you have to be quick about it, because the time is ticking away fast.
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Take your seat in your own submarine and swim through a beautiful underwater world in this all new and mega fun endless game with many cool features! Enjoy intuitive submarine controls by lifting your finger to sink down and touching the display to let it rise up again. Along your exciting adventure try to collect as many coins and fun power-ups as possible to buy powerful upgrades! Your ultimate goal is to transform your basic submarine into a high tech one! This fun and exciting game is all about speed and your hand eye skill. Get ready to explore the ocean, but be aware of enemy rockets, dangerous rocks and other obstacles!
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The apocalypse has begun! Defend the earth from falling asteroids with your phaser guns! Don't let them hit the planet or you will be lost!
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Touch and Catch - Winter Fun
Winter is coming! The first snow is falling and a little squirrel is trying to secure a few more acorns to get through the cold months. Touch And Catch - Winter Fun is an arcade game where you need to show good timing instead of reactions. With a single tap or click you drop the acorn. If your timing is right, the acorn will fall right into the hands of the squirrel. If you drop the acorn the squirrel will be lost - just like your game. Touch and Catch - Winter Fun features classic arcade gameplay and the retro charm of 8 bit graphics. Play it now for free and help the squirrel through the winter!
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Tap the Mouse
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Royal Blue Rectangular Plastic Tablecloth
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|3yrs AM - Play Based
|3/4yrs Combined PM Science & Nature
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2020-2021 School Year Registration
Registration for the 2020-2021 School Year will begin on February 24, 2020. To register or for more details, please call Douglas Recreation Centre at 604-514-2865.
For our COVID-19 Safety Plan, please click HERE
Our History
The Cookie Monster Preschool has been serving families since 1972 at the Douglas Recreation Centre. Over time the program has developed from a recreational program to a licensed preschool. We are proud of our history and the quality of our preschool.
Our Philosophy
The goals and objectives for our preschool are based on the belief that children learn through play, exploration and interaction with other children. Our preschool is intentionally structured in order to provide the children with opportunities to explore, make choices and interact with other children and adults in the classroom.
We believe that a child's growth is sequential. This is reflected in certain routines which are repeated each time your child attends class. These routines allow the freedom for each child to grow at his/her own pace socially, emotionally, physically and intellectually.
Enrolment Information
A $25.00 non-refundable fee and the September payment are due at the time of registration.
Monthly payments are due on the 1st of each month by post-dated cheques only. Cheques for the entire school year are required prior to classes beginning in September.
All returned cheques will be subject to a $25.00 NSF fee
We are proud of our teaching staff and their qualifications. Our staff are chosen for their skills in providing loving and understanding care to children. We are dedicated to providing the best environment for your child's growth and development.
All preschool teachers are licensed in Early Childhood Education, have completed Criminal Record checks and valid first aid certificates.
Classroom Activities
Free Play:
During this time the children are encouraged to discover, explore and use their imagination while engaging in the block, manipulative, dramatic, art, sensory, library and science centers in the classroom.
Activity Transition:
Our teacher uses songs to signal a change in the routine. For example, clean up time has a "Clean Up" song and the children learn to clean up.
Learning Centres:
Learning centres are areas within our classroom with a collection of activities and materials. These materials are related by subject, purpose, or projected skills. These activities and materials are used independently by the children, or with teacher direction, to reinforce and/or enrich one or more skills or concepts.
We have a snack time during every class, and parents are asked to provide a healthy, appropriate sized snack and water or juice in a reusable container for their child. Due to allergy concerns, we do not encourage sharing.
Music and Movement:
Through movement, children develop gross motor skills and stay fit at the same time. They learn cause and effect, action and reaction and adding music makes it fun. The children move to the beat, finding their own individual rhythm.
Gross Motor Skills:
Our program plans for at least 30 minutes each day of either outside playground time at our newly fenced in playground or inside gym time.
Circle Time:
Teacher led activities including songs, poetry, finger-plays, discussions, stories, puppets, music and movement or drama.