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How Much Privacy Are We Willing To Give Up?
HOW MUCH PRIVACY ARE WE WILLING TO GIVE UP? They will be on this forum finding your guns and ammo!
Bush Presses House on Surveillance Bill
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WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush pressured the House on Wednesday to pass new rules for monitoring terrorists' communications, saying "terrorists are planning new attacks on our country ... that will make Sept. 11 pale by comparison."
Bush said he would not agree to giving the House more time to debate a measure the Senate passed Tuesday governing the government's ability to work with telecommunications companies to eavesdrop on phone calls and e-mails between suspected terrorists. The bill gives phone companies retroactive protection from lawsuits filed on the basis of cooperation they gave the government without court permission something Bush insisted was included in the bill.
About 40 lawsuits have been filed against telecom companies by people alleging violations of wiretapping and privacy laws. The House did not include the immunity provision in a similar bill it passed last year.
"In order to be able to discover ... the enemy's plans, we need the cooperation of telecommunication companies," Bush said. "If these companies are subjected to lawsuits that could cost them billions of dollars, they won't participate. They won't help us. They won't help protect America."
The 68-29 Senate vote Tuesday to update the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act belied the nearly two months of stops and starts and bitter political wrangling that preceded it. The two sides had battled to balance civil liberties with the need to conduct surveillance on potential adversaries.
Bush said the Senate bill was passed with wide, bipartisan support, and the House should pass it too before the current law expires at midnight on Saturday.
"Congress has had over six months to discuss and deliberate," said Bush, who stood alongside Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell. "The time for debate is over. I will not accept any temporary extension. They have already been given a two-week extension."
Doubtful they can work out the differences in the bills by the time the law expires, Democrats in the Senate and the House prepared short-term extensions that would keep the law in effect for several more weeks. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky blocked an extension attempt Tuesday. Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the senior Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said Republicans in the House would fight another extension.
"The one thing we've learned about Congress is they won't act until forced to," White House press secretary Dana Perino told reporters after Bush's statement. "We're not going to pass extensions into perpetuity."
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers said Tuesday he still opposes retroactive immunity.
"There is no basis for the broad telecommunications company amnesty provisions advocated by the administration," Conyers wrote in a letter to White House Counsel Fred Fielding asking for documents about the wiretapping program. The documents have been withheld from Congress.
While giving the White House what it wanted on immunity, the Senate also expanded the power of the court to oversee government eavesdropping on Americans. The amendment would give the FISA court the authority to monitor whether the government is complying with procedures designed to protect the privacy of innocent Americans whose telephone or computer communications are captured during surveillance of a foreign target.
The bill would also require FISA court orders to eavesdrop on Americans who are overseas. Under current law, the government can wiretap or search the possessions of anyone outside the United States even a soldier serving overseas without court permission if it believes the person may be a foreign agent.
Project Echelon has been around for decades. This bill Bush is pushing seems superfluous. Does anyone have the real scoop why he's doing this? Is it his idea of PR or partisan maneuvering?
The idea of my email or comments made by me on forums being scrutinized is not appealing. But the only reasonable expectation of privacy I have is on my home computer. Once I transmit something, I do not own the networks, routers and servers it passes through and all bets are off with regard to privacy.
Bottom line: don't say anything electronically you wouldn't be willing to put on a billboard.
(Encryption is another story. That might dissuade casual viewing, but it might invite further scrutiny by others.)
The 4th Amendment is still on the books last time I checked.
I always wonder why people seem to think these programs are set up to spy on us ordinary folk. These operations are to track and investigate terrorists and their connections here. Why waste time looking at us when our enemies use our own technology to plot their activities?
There are safeguards in the plan. There are way too many of us for a government agency to spend their time looking where the enemy isn't. But if you're afraid President Bush is listening in to your phone calls to Aunt Mabel, just be more vigilant and vocal to your Congressperson when real abuses happen.
Remember, no one has a constitutional right to commit crimes. The government has a right and duty to protect us from evildoers both here and abroad.
But what other companies or individuals do with your data traveling unencrypted along networks not under your control is largely up to them, not you.
I'm all for surveillance of suspected terrorists, but there needs to be judicial oversight and something resembling probable cause. The potential for abuse is too great. Remember the forefathers' ideas about checks and balances? The current White House wants to sidestep that, neutering the FISA court, and not even allowing the DOJ to investigate alleged abuses. The telecom companies don't need any special legal protection -- if they're responding to a court order then there's no problem.
bkt, I think there is an expectation of privacy with respect to individual's e-mails, telephone calls, and postal mail. If they are going to share your info without a court order, they need your permission. Check out the Electronics Communications Privacy Act (ECPA).
This puts the WH in a tight spot. It has been raked over the coals for failing to "connect the dots" leading up to 9/11, and now it is being told it is doing too much. This all smells of partisan politics as much or more than actual security.
Never again...
Echelon intercepts virtually all communications and can search them (near?) real-time for keywords, written or spoken. What I was asking is why do we need something else when we already have that?
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YEATS SAID BY LOGIC and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live. If so, local fantasy artist Leonard Parkin - while not the next Methuselah - will certainly have a long life.
At first glance, Parkin appears intimidating: He's built like a '55 Buick. But after a warmhearted smile and a few soft-spoken words, this bald and bearded gentle giant leaves one with the impression that nursery rhymes are his literary staple.It's easy to spot one of Parkin's paintings. There is the ubiquitous blackness of outer space aglow with clusters of glittering stars, large swirling planets and gaseous pastel clouds. In the foreground, children and animals play on mounds of grass, lean against fences or hang from tree houses, oblivious to the majestic, celestial spectacle surrounding them.
Parkin's childhood fascination with stars and planets was intensified when he joined the Navy. Stationed aboard an aircraft carrier used as a recovery vessel for the early space shots, Parkin had the opportunity to photograph and talk with several astronauts.
"Walking and talking with men like Gus Grissom and John Glenn thrilled my imagination," says Parkin, "leaving it to wander . . . and wonder."
Parkin has been painting his fantasy pieces for 15 years. "When I came to Utah from Idaho in '81," Parkin says, "I was doing landscapes. I heard there was a position open for an artist at the Ensign magazine so I went in and talked to Warren Luchs. I had my portfolio all spread out on the table. There was this Polaroid of one of my pieces, an eagle flying over some clouds with a planet behind it, and Luchs liked it. He said, `You know, with all the colleges around here, I can get a landscape artist anytime I want. But this one of space is different. I've never seen anything like it before."'
Self-taught but proficient in many mediums, Parkin prefers alkyds over oil, acrylic or watercolor. Alkyds brush out smooth and produce an exceptionally luminous look. The drying time is shorter than oils and longer than acrylics.
He paints on Masonite (finished on both sides to prevent warping), blocking in color areas with watered-down acrylics after fixing the surface with gesso. At this point Parkin begins painting, using glazes.
"I use multiple glazes on my paintings to get that special, deep-space glow," he says. "I very seldom mix the color I want on my palette. I mix it on the painting."
In 1994, Parkin painted two murals for the Oncology Department at Primary Children's Medical Center in Salt Lake City. The murals, "The Land of Chromos" and "A Day at Doogh's House," hang in a treatment room, comforting children undergoing chemotherapy and other unpleasant procedures. They are magical works, filled with strange lands and houses and planets and children at play. Parkin's fantastical art surely helps the children travel to a place less scary, less painful.
Parkin and his wife Cheryl have seven children and six grandchildren. His original paintings, limited-edition prints and posters can be found at Repartee Frameworks Galleries in Park City, Salt Lake City (managed by Cheryl), Orem and the new gallery in the Valley Fair Mall.Cheryl will leave the Foothill gallery to manage the Valley Fair operation.


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On football's day, Schwartz genuflects to baseball
There are only so many hours of Super Bowl pregame shows that a human should be subjected to on television or radio. After watching your third feature story of the week about "Cooper: The Forgotten Manning," how does one cleanse the palate before the big game?
One suggestion is the online broadcast of Jonathan Schwartz's 44th annual Tribute to Baseball, which will stream from noon to 4 p.m. today on TheJonathanChannel.org. Schwartz is a longtime New York City radio personality whose Jonathan Channel, from WNYC Radio, specializes in music from the Great American Songbook era, from the 1920s to the '60s. Every year, on Super Bowl Sunday, Schwartz – in his urbane and eloquent way – sort of makes an impolite gesture to the NFL by proclaiming his passion for America's pastime.
"It's a natural day to do it, with everyone celebrating the Super Bowl and football in the land, someone ought to speak up for the greatest game ever conceived," Schwartz said last week by phone. "Where there's no clock on it, you can see the faces of the players, and no one is going to dreadfully get hurt, one assumes."
Schwartz, who is a published fiction writer, essayist and memoirist as well as a jazz vocalist, calls baseball "a novel rather than a short story. It takes place every day, so to speak, for more than half of the years. Whereas professional football is more like a sleazy short story and there are 16 of these stories in the so-called book."
It's not that football reviles Schwartz. He admits to following the games from week to week, being "interested in certain players, but in a very mild way. And I am part of Betting America, in a very small dose. And then there's this Super Bowl business that certainly I pay attention to with some friends and some whiskey."
Schwartz says he was hoping for a blizzard this week in New York and New Jersey, to force the NFL to struggle a bit with its Cold Weather Super Bowl.
"Baseball is generally played in weather that is reasonable for outdoor sport," he said. "It's also a very cerebral sport. Football involves some good deal of intelligence, I know that. It's also a ferocious animalization of the human race."
Schwartz said no one from the NFL has ever acknowledged his anti-football tribute to baseball.
Schwartz is a longtime Red Sox fan, a condition he acquired when his father, the composer Arthur Schwartz, was putting on a show in Boston and young Jonathan was taken to a 1946 World Series game between the Cardinals and Red Sox. at Fenway Park.
"When I walked into Fenway Park, I thought I had walked into heaven," Schwartz said in a 2011 interview.
Today's four-hour broadcast will include both Schwartz's baseball tribute and his regular music programming.
"I read about baseball, I have the sounds of baseball, the songs of baseball. I play an ordinary game between, say, Kansas City and the Red Sox, or the White Sox and Tigers, it comes in and out as I go. Just an ordinary game from years ago, in the '60s and '70s, where we hear names like Siebern and Skowron, if the Yankees are involved, or Bobby Shantz might be pitching, the old Philadelphia A's left-hander who wound up with the Yankees, as everyone does. It's scattered through the program.
"And Vin Scully is inevitably present. This Sunday he will call a perfect game pitched by Sandy Koufax. We'll hear the ninth inning."
Schwartz wrote an essay for Sports Illustrated in 1979 about the pain of the Red Sox's 1978 playoff loss to the Yankees, thanks to Bucky Dent's home run. His account of Dent's big moment was spare in its language:
"I studied Torrez. He stood behind the mound rubbing up the new ball. He did not pace, he did not turn to examine the outfield. He just rubbed up the new ball and stared in at Dent, who was bent over to the left of the plate, his shin being cared for.
"I watched, hanging over the railing. I had seen too many fly balls from the roof seats on the first-base side to be fooled now. This fly ball by a Yankee shortstop with an aching shin was clearly a home run. I had no doubt from the start.
"When the ball struck the net, Yastrzemski's whole body trembled for an instant. Then he froze, every muscle drawn tight in excruciating frustration.
I said out loud, "God, no! God, no!"
A pregame buffet
Fox Sports' pregame show begins today at 2 p.m., about four hours before kickoff in MetLife Stadium.
Here is a rundown of some of the highlights:
• Weather stories: "Many of the NFL's most memorable games have been played in inclement weather," Fox says. "Stories of these unique and unforgettable games are packaged and told as never before."
• John Elway, who as a player took the Broncos to five Super Bowls and won two, is profiled as Denver's executive vice president of football operations.
• Terry Bradshaw and Joe Namath swap Super Bowl memories. Bradshaw says that Namath was one of the players he always looked up to.
• The 1958 NFL Championship Game. The clash between the Baltimore Colts and New York Giants has been called The Greatest Game Ever Played. Fox revisits that day in a segment about New York-based football title games.
• Michael Strahan interviews the pop singer Bruno Mars, who is the featured performer at halftime.
• Pat Summerall tribute: Summerall, who died last April, was a beloved analyst and play-by-play man for NFC games, as well as a player for the New York Giants in the 1950s. Summerall's work with John Madden at both CBS and Fox and Tom Brookshier at CBS is recalled in depth.
Short takes
Some notable quotations from NFL personalities who were on the Fox family of networks this past week:
• Jay Glazer on Peyton Manning's game preparation: Manning called Arizona Cardinals coach Bruce Arians, "remember they are the last team, the Cardinals, to beat the Seattle Seahawks. He got on the phone with him for about an hour and a half, and he picked Bruce Arians' brain on every little thing he possibly could about every guy, both sides of the ball, everything that they do, the route trees, what they do in their secondary. It was Peyton Manning 101."
• Jerry Rice on Richard Sherman: "I always faced defensive backs that would talk a lot, but I would shut them up by scoring a touchdown. That is all I had to do. If you score touchdowns, then all of a sudden, you've got them exactly where you want them towards the fourth quarter … If I had to play Richard Sherman, I would come to the line and I wouldn't initiate; I wouldn't try to react off him. I would always come to the line with a way of getting away from him, having two or three moves in my head."
• Dave Krieg, ex-Seahawks QB, on Russell Wilson: "I used to scramble around, mostly out of fear; he does it because he has the athletic ability to do it. He doesn't look to run first – he looks to throw it. … He's such a strong kid, he's athletic, smart, his personality is very mature, he's got so much poise under pressure like Chuck Knox used to say, and I am looking for him to have a real breakout game."
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Ogwumike now has been named to three All-America teams in just two days. Tuesday she was unanimously voted to the Associated Press All-America first team, while younger sister Chiney was named to the second team.
Wednesday's selections also make Ogwumike a three-time USBWA (2010-12) and John R. Wooden Award (2010-12) All-American.
Ogwumike and Stanford (35-1) head to the program's fifth straight Final Four this weekend, putting the Cardinal's program-record 32-game winning streak on the line against Baylor on Sunday at 6 p.m. in the Pepsi Center in Denver.
The 2011-12 season that Ogwumike has put together is one of the most, if not the most, dominant in Stanford women's basketball history. The Cypress, Texas native was named Pac-12 Player of the Year for the second time in her career, as well as the Most Outstanding Player of both the Pac-12 Tournament and Fresno Regional.
She enters Sunday's national semifinal averaging 22.5 points and 10.3 rebounds a game with shooting percentages of 55.4 from the field and 83.1 from the free-throw line. Over Stanford's four NCAA Tournament wins she has averaged 28.0 points, 8.5 rebounds and 2.11 assists and shot 65.1 percent from the field and 82.9 percent from the line.
Already this year Ogwumike holds the holds the highest single-season scoring average (22.5) in school history and on Monday night tied Candice Wiggins' scoring record with 787 points.
She became Stanford's fourth and the Pac-12's eighth member of the "2,000-Point/1,000-Rebound Club" on Jan. 7 against Oregon State, achieving both marks on that day. Ogwumike currently stands second in Stanford history with 2,469 points, a 58.4 field-goal percentage and 551 free throws made, third with 1,217 rebounds and fourth with 17.1 points and 8.5 rebounds per game.
Ogwumike has also posted 19 double-doubles, 20 games with at least 20 points and five games of at least 30 points. Her top scoring effort this year came on Dec. 20 against then-No. 6/6 Tennessee, when she scored a career-high 42 points with 17 rebounds in Stanford's 97-80 win.
She is also a consensus national player of the year finalist, in contention for the Wade Trophy (along with sister Chiney), John R. Wooden Award, Naismith Trophy, and national player of the year awards of the Associated Press and USBWA.
The USBWA will announce its National Player of the Year on April 3, while the John R. Wooden Award will be announced Friday, April 6 in Los Angeles.
Chiney Ogwumike, meanwhile, was named one of five finalists for the WBCA Division I Defensive Player of the Year award, the WBCA announced Monday.
Ogwumike was named Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year on March 6, becoming the second player to claim the honor. She was also named to the All-Pac-12 Team as well as to the conference's All-Defensive Team.
Men's basketball
Stanford played for the NIT Championship on Thursday night against Minnesota in New York's Madison Square Garden after Anthony Brown scored a season-high 18 points to help beat Massachusetts, 74-64, Tuesday night in the semifinals.
(For results of the championship game, go to www.pasportsonline.com)
Josh Owens added 15 points and 10 rebounds for the Cardinal (25-11), which played for its second NIT title against the Gophers, who knocked off Pac-12 regular-season champ Washington, 68-67, in overtime to reach the title game.
Aaron Bright and Chasson Randle, the latter of whom was in foul trouble much of the second half, combined for another 25 points against UMass, including an 11 of 13 effort from the foul line, and six assists.
Randle, despite playing with four fouls, remained aggressive and was able to make significant contributions in tandem with Bright.
"It's been great," Bright said. "Guys are tapping into their ability and finding their niche. We're realizing what we can be for next year. This is a nice building block."
Stanford also beat Massachusetts in the semifinals of the 1991 postseason NIT en route to its championship victory over Oklahoma.
Brown hit a 3-pointer with 2:52 remaining to play to put the Cardinal up, 63-55. He was wide open thanks to the threat of Randle driving to the basket before dishing off.
"He played great," Bright said of Brown. "When he gets into that mode and his jump shot is going, he's a great player. He just needs to be consistent."
Stanford is 11-1 in games Brown has reached double figures. The Cardinal is 12-4 all-time at Madison Square Garden.
"He had great looks and confidence," Stanford coach Johnny Dawkins said. "He really stepped up and did it for us."
Stanford went on a 12-2 run to take a 28-16 lead midway through the first half, with Bright and Randle responsible for 10 of the points.
The Cardinal took a 36-33 lead into halftime. Stanford grad Landry Fields, who plays with Jeremy Lin and the New York Knicks, was in attendance.


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General Motors Issues Five New Recalls
General Motors has announced five separate recalls today which affects over 2.7 million vehicles in the U.S. The new batch of recalls, according to the Detroit Free Press, brings the total number of vehicles recalled by GM this year about 11 million.
About the Latest GM Recalls
GM's newest batch of recalls comes as the company is dealing with the fallout of a massive 2.6 million vehicle recall earlier this year due to faulty ignition switches. The GM ignition recall involved older compact cars such as the Chevrolet Cobalt and Saturn Ion which experienced engine stalls, brake failure and other issues linked to an ignition switch defect.
None of the recent recalls are linked to the defective switches. GM has said it will take a $200 million charge against its second quarter earnings to pay for this round of recalls.
Chevy Malibu Recall
The biggest recall announced today affects approximately 2.44 million vehicles that can experience brake light failure due to corrosion of a wiring harness through micro-vibration. GM has said they received several hundred complaints and have linked the defect to 13 crashes which resulted in 2 injuries.
Vehicles affected by the recall include:
- 2004-2012 Chevrolet Malibu
- 2004-2007 Chevrolet Malibu Maxx
- 2005-2010 Pontiac G6
- 2007-2010 Saturn Aura
Other GM Recalls
The remainder of the safety recalls announced by GM today includes:
- 140,067 Chevrolet Malibus with 2.5-liter engines and model year 2014. A software defect can disable the hydraulic brake boost system, making it difficult for drivers to stop the car. GM says it is aware of 4 crashes which may be related to the issue.
- 111,889 Chevrolet Corvettes that have the potential for low-beam headlamp failure. The company has received hundreds of complaints related to the issue. GM will also make repairs to model years 2008-2013.
- 19,225 Cadillac CTS model years 2013-2014 for windshield wiper failure.
- 447 Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra pickup trucks model year 2014-2015 to repair a defective tie-rod.
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Should Pinellas do No Child tutoring?
From the Dec. 16 "Friday Update" to Pinellas school board members: Representatives from district leadership attended a Florida Department of Education technical assistance workshop Dec. 9 to learn more about how the district could become a direct provider of supplemental educational services (SES). As you know, school districts with Title I schools that have not made Adequate Yearly Progress for three consecutive years in reading and/or math are required to offer supplemental educational services for eligible students. Services may include tutoring, remediation and academic intervention, and must take place outside the regular school day.
Currently in Pinellas, parents choose an SES provider from among providers approved by the state. Hillsborough and Leon counties, on the other hand, have been direct providers of SES services for several years. Next steps in Pinellas' exploration of the idea of becoming a direct provider include investigating how the initiative is working in Hillsborough and a Cabinet-level discussion about the pros and cons of submitting an application.
We're not sure how this fits into the big picture of No Child tutoring requirements; if anybody knows, by all means, shed some light. If we understand it right, the U.S. DOE is offering flexibility through waivers to the NCLB requirement that districts set aside 20 percent of their Title I money to provide tutoring and transportation to kids in Title I schools that fail to meet adequate yearly progress two years in a row or more. The state of Florida, in its waiver application, is asking for flexibility there, but it's not clear what it's planning to do instead.
As we've noted before, Florida schools are spending a ton of Title I money on No Child tutoring - about $344 million in the past three years alone - with virtually all of it provided by the private sector. There have been questions since the beginning about effectiveness.
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Irregular TSH Test
Around June I began having problems with my heart racing (~171 bpm). This happened on several occasions. After my 3rd hospital visit I was told that my TSH levels were high. On top of that I have had bad stomach pain around my liver area and my throat spasms almost everyday,and insomnia. I have been taking protonix for GERD, Zertek and Nasonex. Long story short no one knows what wrong. I continue on a day to day basis like this and I haven`t slept in weeks. Do you have any advice as to who else I can see?
If your TSH is high, that means that the thyroid hormone levels in your blood are low (the TSH runs opposite to the thyroid hormone level). If the thyroid hormone level is very low, you could get symptoms of hypothyroidism - weight gain, sleepiness, feeling cold, constipation, dry skin, muscle aches, hoarseness. If your thyroid level is only a little bit low then it might not give you any symptoms at all.
You need to have a test called a "free T4" to see how low the thyroid levels are in your blood. However, even severe hypothyroidism would not cause a racing heart (that would be caused by too much thyroid hormone, not too little), stomach pain, throat spasms, or insomnia, so I'm afraid that the abnormal TSH probably doesn't have anything to do with the way you are feeling.
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A plan to redevelop Pete's Harbor into an upscale waterfront community with 411 apartments and a small marina is headed to the Redwood City Planning Commission on Feb. 4.
The harbor has been mostly vacant for a year after marina tenants were told in September 2012 to move their boats out. Although most sailed away quietly by a Jan. 15, 2013, eviction deadline, others challenged the order at public meetings and court hearings, but eventually left too.
If planning commissioners approve the development plan, construction can proceed immediately unless its decision is appealed to the city council, Planning Manager Blake Lyon said. He said an environmental impact report for the project isn't required because one done in 2003 for a larger project proposed by the developer, Paul Powers, had already been approved. That report simply will be updated with the latest project information.
"The way the addendum works, I don't want to make light of it, but it's kind of a note in the file," Lyon told The Daily News earlier this week. "The planning commission has the ability to take that information into consideration, but there's no formal action for them to take. The Pete's Harbor impacts are less significant than what was previously identified."
The proposal submitted by Powers in 2012 envisioned allowing only residents of the new apartments to use the harbor's 263-slip marina, but a revised plan turned into the city in July calls for just a 65-slip marina that would be available to the public as well as apartment tenants on a first-come-first serve basis. No one would be allowed to live on the boats, however, as had been the case before.
What forced the change were revelations that two leases Pete's Harbor had with the state require that the outer harbor be operated as a public marina, not a private one. Property owner Paula Uccelli subsequently terminated the leases and now Powers is only using the smaller inner harbor, which is owned by Uccelli.
Powers has asked Redwood City to reduce required parking from 958 spaces to 883 spaces, most of which would be located inside a multi-level garage. Powers has argued that the parking allotment should coincide with those in downtown and along commercial corridors that are based on number of bedrooms per unit, Lyon said.
Alison Madden, an attorney who represented some of the Pete's Harbor tenants in their fight to remain, said if the planning commission approves the project she expects to appeal.
"We still think that the plan is out of scope and is too large for the area," Madden wrote in an email.
The environmental study is more than a decade old so a new one is needed, Madden said, adding that she and others are still lobbying state and federal officials to preserve a public marina at the outer harbor.
She also objected to Powers' request to reduce the parking space requirement.
The proposed development also features such public amenities as a hand-rowed boat launch and trails, picnic facilities and a bocce ball court along the waterfront.
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- Anime Boston 2010
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This is my Anime Boston 2008 Sprite with a touch of CG Terra cosplay! It looked good the first day, but my wig got kinda destroyed some how and it looked sooooo bad on Saturday of the con. I really have to learn how to smile better in pictures. In some of these, I look really doofy :P I have also learned that doing the sprite version of Terra just isn't worth it at all. Terra cosplays are all about detail, and let's face it... mine has none. I know exactly which Amano I want to do. So check me out in the future! It'll be great!....I hope.
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Monday, March 2, 2009
Embedded content is now a major new driver for mobile phone purchases
The poll was conducted across 130 countries and asked respondents to rank a list of 10 phone features by order of importance including brand, screen size/ resolution, user experience/ phone software, phone memory, quality of camera, price, touch screen, music player, embedded content and overall design/ look and feel. They were also asked to grade each of those features individually on a five-level scale of importance.
When ranking the most important features their new phone must have, brand remains the number one factor for consumers with nearly a third of respondents (28%) placing that at the top of their list of criteria, ahead of user experience (17%). The content that comes with the handset was third with 12% of respondents worldwide saying it is 'extremely important' to their choice of new handset ahead of phone memory (8%), price (5%) and design (7%).
The poll showed this increased demand for embedded content across all the major international regions, but in the US consumers placed it higher on their list of priorities than those in Europe, with 60% of US respondents stating that it was 'extremely important' to their choice of handset compared to 47% in Europe.
The findings also indicate that the uptake of new handsets will be faster in Europe with only 25% of those surveyed saying they will not get a new phone this year compared to a massive 40% of US consumers polled.
In Asia, brand was again the key overall factor for phone choice with 28% of consumers saying this was the number one attribute for them. Second was user interface / phone software with 18% and content a strong third with 14%. Price was only cited as the most important factor by 5%.
In India specifically, a massive 60% of respondents considered the phone interface/software to be extremely important to their choice of handset, alongside the quality of the camera (also 60%). When asked about their plans to get a new phone in 2009, 30% said they did not expect to purchase or upgrade in 2009.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
We just announced our Top 5 apps for 2008
And the winners are... Google Maps, Opera Mini, scanR, Twitter and Strands Social Player. Congratulations to all of them!
Our annual Mobile Awards aim to recognize the diversity and innovation of the applications available for mobile phones on GetJar. The criteria for evaluation include the quality of the application, its popularity, the user experience, usage, and users' feedback.
If you don't have an iPhone, but you want apps - GetJar's the place!
GetJar's Third Annual Mobile Award Winners Highlight Innovative Uses for Mobile Phones
18 million visitors per month to GetJar.com prove that 'ordinary' phones can be used to browse the Web, get directions, stay connected with friends, and even scan-copy-fax
LONDON, December 17, 2008: GetJar (www.getjar.com), the world's most popular destination for downloading mobile applications, has announced the third annual GetJar Mobile Awards: Google Maps, Opera Mini, scanR, Twitter and Strands Social Player are this year's stars.
Browsing the Web, getting directions, connecting with friends, and even copying and faxing — all this can now be accomplished on a basic mobile phone. GetJar offers 10,000 unique applications for hundreds of handsets, and sees visitors from 140 countries, making these awards an interesting snapshot of how consumers are extending the functionality of their mobile phones. This year's winners highlight the growing trend of mobile phone applications becoming an integral part of consumers' daily lives.
The five winners of the 2008 GetJar Mobile Awards:
1. Product of the Year -- Google Maps for Mobile
Google Maps for mobile is a free, downloadable application that puts maps, driving directions, business listings, and much more in your pocket. And with the My Location feature, find your location with or without GPS. Available for BlackBerry, Java (J2ME), Pocket PC, Symbian.
2. Best Consumer App: Opera Mini
Opera Mini is a fast Web browser that allows you to access the full Internet on your phone. It lets you take all your favorite Web sites with you, and download images and MP3s when you're on the go. Available for BlackBerry, Java (J2ME), Palm, Pocket PC and nearly every other mobile platform.
3. Best Enterprise App: scanR
scanR turns your camera phone into a scanner, copier and fax. In the office, on the road, or at home—wherever you are—you can make digital copies using your mobile phone's camera. Available for: BlackBerry, Java (J2ME), Palm, Symbian.
4. Best Mobile Web Application: Twitter
This category recognizes a special class of application – one that runs on the web and is access from the phone. Twitter, the free social messaging utility, is now also on your mobile, so you can follow your friends' Tweets and tweet back at them. Available for BlackBerry, Java (J2ME), Pocket PC, Symbian.
5. "Up and Coming" App of the Year: Strands Social Player
Strands Social Player is a music player that works with MyStrands so you can discover new music, connect with people, and share your tastes with friends. The latest version supports scrobbling to Last.fm. Available for Java (J2ME) and Symbian.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
How the crisis will affect the mobile application ecosystem
Before speculating on what will change, I'll briefly state where we are now, just to identify the starting point of the coming changes. In mobile application ecosystem I'd say we currently are in a highly speculative, expectations driven, risky but potentially very rewarding environment. In 2006-2007, lot of money was invested into mobile apps and services. Conditionally, I'd call this a "get the product" period, during which lot of money was spent to create innovative mobile products (thought truly innovative services were only a few, the vast majority went to recreate internet-proven models, from social networking to blogging to video sharing and the rest).
Following the "product" period, a "get the user" era arrived (mid 2007 to current). Mobile gold rushers, already having product in place, went to into battle with their marketing budgets in an attempt to win the most eyeballs. The logic behind is very simple. On the already established internet, an individual user may be worth all the way to $50 (check out the investments into Facebook in 2007 to get a sense of how much one user of the free service can be valued at). Such "individual user valuations" are based on the established internet business models capable of drawing value from users. Universal advertising solutions and multitude of affiliation opportunities make it simple to monetize your user base. With the level of liquidity already existing on the internet, users become a kind of a commodity, with the present value of the future earnings from the available business models being their current "worth". Not the case with mobile. Although there do already exist some "Mobile 1.0 business models" that allow drawing some value from users (eg affiliation with ringtone, wallpaper and other "old crap" sellers), these are nothing compared to what will come (big brands move to advertise into mobile space, global mobile billing enables whole mobile virtual economies and so on).
Naturally, if someone believes a mobile user in 5 years may be worth at least as much as a web user is worth now (ie all the way to $50), then it makes sense to buy mobile users for your product now when they're cheap, and accumulate them until mobile gets mature and places "the right price tag" on a user. Then, sell this user base with the product and the company, or run the already available robust business models on your user base. Let's call this era "get the cash". Being in their vast majority in the transitional (ie "get the user") phase now, developers haven't yet looked into long term monetization models.
So what the crisis is definitely going to bring is a massive shift from "get the user" to "get the cash" position. And we definitely see the process starting to happen, as many mobile companies accelerate their research and adoption of various monetization models. Of course it is unlikely that mobile companies will find in the very short term a "magic solution" that will immediately bring them into mega profits. The market and the user are still immature and have a long way to go. But those companies able to find working, efficient and scalable monetization models are definitely going to be in a much better shape.
At GetJar, being committed to providing a full range of mobile developer services, we've been working on mobile monetization solutions since day one.
One technology we're launching publicly now after a very successful 6 months pilot with several mobile developer partners is called MADI (Mobile AD Injection), click here for details. MADI (currently available for J2ME with other platforms coming soon) is a simple API that enables ads inside a mobile application. On the back end, the API connects to GetJar's ad server, which in turn is connected to GetJar's own mobile ads database and several third party mobile advertising networks.
Pilot developers using MADI reported highly attractive $2 to $50 CPM rates (earnings vary much depending on user demographics, level of ad visibility and so on). One unique aspect of GetJar MADI is that it is a complete solution. Developers simply insert MADI code into his application and GetJar provides both the supply of ads into the application AND application distribution.
Besides advertising, other technologies enabling various monetization models are being developed by GetJar in partnership with carriers, phone manufacturers and mobile platform developers and are planned for launch as early as 2009.
Monday, November 24, 2008
GetJar signs app store agreement with Optimus
App stores have become a focal point for carriers in recent months, spurred by Apple's App Store and, more recently, the Android Market. We recently signed a similar deal with the UK's 3 (www.three.co.uk), and we're working with various carriers around the world to implement app stores for them. Stay tuned for more!
We're really encouraged to see so many carriers turn to us for help deploying an app store. For our carrier partners, the value we offer is clear: they can quickly deploy a full-featured app store with almost zero capital expense, and then benefit from the increase in overall brand value and adoption of data plans (app stores drive data traffic and associated revenues). GetJar is currently running at more than 16 million downloads per month, serving mobile users from 135 countries.
You can read our news release here. (http://tinyurl.com/5gwxuo)
Friday, October 24, 2008
The financial crisis and its affects on spending and upgrade plans
Mobile users around the world are delaying plans to upgrade or buy new phone handsets while also changing their current spending habits, due to the global economic crisis. These are the findings of the first 'Mobile Attitudes' poll carried out by GetJar (http://www.getjar.com), the world's most respected mobile applications portal.GetJar's 'Mobile Attitudes' poll revealed that 78 percent of respondents from a worldwide audience are delaying plans to upgrade or buy a new mobile phone as a result of the current economic climate. Similarly, 76 percent of mobile phone users are immediately planning to reduce the amount they spend on phone usage.
When asked whether they had reduced spending on mobile phones in the last 12 months, more than 50 percent of respondents had not reduced their spending at all, or by as little as 10 percent, during that period. For those people who had reduced their spending, the economy was the reason given by just over one third of respondents, while 20 percent changed their usage habits to lower expenses, and a further 28 percent had switched to using free applications to avoid charges.
GetJar also asked its users to reveal which mobile services they spend most money on each month. 35 percent said SMS accounted for the greatest proportion of their mobile phone bill; 18.5 percent said it was voice services; and just under 17 percent identified data services. Premium services accounted for the largest part of the monthly mobile spend for 12 percent of the survey participants.
Current spending habits
"What we are seeing is a quite understandable reaction to the economic news that has dominated headlines all around the world," commented Ilja Laurs, founder and CEO of GetJar. "It will be interesting to see how these intentions are played out in reality over the coming months — whether they are based on short-term concerns that will fade quite quickly, or whether we will see long-lasting changes in consumer behaviour."The survey also examined consumer experiences in relation to roaming charges, data costs, and who actually pays mobile phone bills around the world – subscribers themselves, their parents, or their employers.


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Gone Home is the first game to come out of The Fullbright Company, an independent game studio in Portland, Oregon made up of alums of mainstream titles such as Bioshock and XCOM. If you're like me, this doesn't mean much to you. You've probably heard of games like those, and maybe you've even watched your friends play them and know they're impressive, but it's not really your scene. I've personally always preferred movies to games, reading to tabletop, anime to Scrabble. I'm simply not a gamer, and that's okay.
Although, when I was a kid in the '90s, there was an amazing company called Purple Moon. Created by sociologist Brenda Laurel, the company aimed to create games intended specifically for girls based on years of research. The games encouraged things like decision-making, making friends and, well, snooping. These visual novel-like games included interactions with classmates and friends, and then allowed a deeper look at those people by giving the player access to things like their diaries and lockers. At any point in many of the company's Rockett series games, about a redhead who starts junior high in a new town, you could pause the "action" and switch to a hallway screen that let you snoop through the lockers of Rockett's classmates. The longer you played, more lockers became available and more items in the locker became clickable. You could flip through diaries, look at photos, and read notes the characters wrote one another. For a busybody like me, it was a dream come true.
Enter Gone Home. I don't remember how I came across this game (I'll bet you anything it was Tumblr), but the premise immediately made me think of Purple Moon and the Rockett games. In Gone Home, it is June 1995, and you, the eldest daughter of the Greenbriar family, have just returned home after a year in Europe. You come home a little after one in the morning to find your family gone, and without the use of things like cellphones and the internet, their whereabouts are a mystery. You spend the rest of the night exploring the house, trying to find out where your family has gone and why they left.
I won't spoil anything, because the story is really, really good and should be experienced with as little knowledge of the plot as possible. I suggest not knowing much going in because the world of Gone Home is fully immersive. You start out on the enclosed front porch of your family's new home, a thunderstorm providing atmosphere outside, and you cannot leave. The player essentially becomes the character of Katie Greenbriar, not just because they are playing as her, but because they have to figure out how to be her to find her family – but this is hardly a challenge. In my experience, not only did the strange place feel immediately familiar, but I started referring to the Greenbriars as my family, calling Jan and Terry "mom" and "dad", and referring to Sam in the possessive, as in "What has my little sister gone and done this time?"
The real "hero" of the story, though, is Katie's little sister, Sam. As Katie moves through the house, it is clear her entire family lives there now, but it is Sam who leaves her mark on the place. Sam is also what reminds me the most of the Purple Moon franchise, as exploring her room, and much of the rest of the house, is like riffling through the lockers of fictional classmates. Hell, Sam even has a locker in her room! But between that, the plethora of hastily scribbled notes, the school supplies (including a binder that looks suspiciously like a Lisa Frank Trapper Keeper), and just the sheer '90s teenaged-ness of it all, it reminds me so much of the games I played as a kid. Gone Home are those games on a grand scale and for adults – a way to look back, tip your hat to nostalgia and not just revel in it, but make and learn something from it.
But what I really cannot get over the way the game makes me feel. Now, I was 7 in 1995, and Sam and Katie would be 12 and 15 years older than me respectively, but that doesn't stop me from remembering how I felt playing games in the '90s. As my brother was playing racing and adventure N64 games, and all the computer games my dad played were full of fragging and demonic aliens, I found games I liked and identified with and I thought that was just how games were – that there were tons of different kinds and you could just settle in to the ones you liked and play them, and they would always be available. Purple Moon, sadly, folded into Mattel and stopped creating the games I liked by the late '90s, and yet male-oriented console and shooter games are still extremely popular. Games marketed directly at girls have mostly moved to hand-held systems, and tend to focus more on traditionally feminine careers, licensed characters, and horses. Not that those sorts of games are bad, but I honestly don't see the interest in exploration and relationships in those games as I did in those made by Purple Moon and a few select other games from that era. Games like Simon & Schuster's Let's Talk About Me and Barbie and her Magical House come to mind, the later of which could have been Gone Home's low tech little sister. (Check out these great YouTube videos of a playthrough – kind of eerie, huh?)
Gone Home is a deeply moving game that capture the mid-'90s in a way that makes you feel like you've gone back in time, but also hearkens back to games from that era that are clearly its predecessors, whether the creators intended such a thing or not. I would be interested in hearing from the members of The Fullbright Company about the games that inspired Gone Home, or if it's just a happy coincidence that made my experience all the more fulfilling. Whatever the answer, I'm excited to see what future games are inspired by Gone Home, which is reportedly doing very well, and what this means for the future of alternative gaming.


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The concept used for containment, treatment and distribution of sewage-water is based on and draws information from the wetlands concept which has long been used in exterior applications for thousands of years by humans and nature.
|The Earthship sewage system differs from the wetlands approach in that it primarily treats the gray water inside the building and the sewage from the toilet outside of the building, both in smaller areas. Greywater is the used water after all receptacles except the toilet.
All household sewage is used & reused in the interior and exterior planters, called botanical cells.
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Rocker scores Facebook movie starring Justin Timberlake
Nine Inch Nails' singer Trent Reznor has written the soundtrack for a new film about the founding of Facebook.
Called The Social Network, and directed by Fight Club mastermind David Fincher, the film stars Justin Timberlake, Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield.
Reznor said: "When I actually read the script and realised what he was up to, I said goodbye to that free time I had planned."
The movie is released on 1 October in the US.
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The film follows the founding of social network Facebook, launched by a group of American computer science students at Harvard University in 2004.
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive officer, is played in the movie by Jesse Eisenberg - who has acted most recently in Zombieland and Adventureland.
Timberlake plays Sean Parker who went onto become President of the site.
Reznor is collaborating on the soundtrack with British producer Atticus Ross.
Director David Fincher has spent much of his career making music videos for the likes of Madonna, Michael Jackson and George Michael.
He went on to direct a number of films including Se7en, Fight Club and, most recently, Panic Room.
A date for the UK release of the film is yet to be confirmed.


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This month, every single resident in Ahwatukee Foothills and beyond (this means you!) is being asked to do one simple thing — give.
"On March 20, all Arizonans will be asked to participate in the first-ever Arizona Gives Day," said Patrick McWhortor, president and CEO of the Alliance of Arizona Nonprofits, who helped to develop the initiative in partnership with the Arizona Grantmakers Forum and a team of statewide leaders.
Beginning at midnight on March 20 and continuing until 11:59 p.m., Arizonans can go online at www.AZGives.org to support a local nonprofit in their community, or pledge their financial support to one of the hundreds of participating nonprofits across the state. A day dedicated to communities that care, Arizona Gives Day, presented by First Bank, will focus on giving back to the organizations whose invaluable efforts have helped empower communities and provide services, products and more to those in need.
The Gives Day movement began in Minnesota four years ago as a way to increase individual giving and help nonprofits raise awareness about their cause. Each year since, these initiatives have seen increased success and have helped countless organizations continue to provide the services and programs their communities need. Today, Gives Days are becoming increasingly more popular, leading many other states like Colorado, Georgia, Alabama and now Arizona to expand the "flash-mob type" movement into their own states. Organizers of the Arizona Gives Day hope to see the same successful response during the 24-hour statewide online giving initiative on March 20.
"For as little as $10, nonprofits in Arizona can and do make a difference," said McWhortor. "Together, we hope to raise more than $2 million on this single day."
According to Marissa Theisen, president and CEO of Arizona Grantmakers Forum, donations made on Arizona Gives Day will help the state's nonprofits: rally volunteers, change lives, build leaders, develop networks, fight for rights, create scholarships, and champion critical community causes.
"During the recent economic downtimes in Arizona and beyond, individual giving has declined. This is our chance to bring it back in a big way," said Theisen.
Nonprofit participation
Among the 500-plus nonprofits participating in this event are several from around Ahwatukee — as well as many that service the community — including: Alport Syndrome Foundation, Linus Foundation, Arizona Bridge to Independent Living, Alliance of Arizona Nonprofits, Alzheimer's Association Desert Southwest Chapter, America Lung Association Arizona Chapter, Arizona Autism United, Arizona Humane Society, Association of Arizona Food Banks, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Arizona, Ear Candy Charity, Fresh Start Women's Foundation, Girl Scouts Arizona – Cactus-Pine Council, Goodwill of Central Arizona, Make A Wish Arizona, Arizona Wildlife Federation, Southwest Center for HIV/AIDS, Mothers' Awareness on School-Aged Kids, and Habitat for Humanity.
How to participate
Businesses, schools and communities are encouraged to rally friends, family, classmates and co-workers leading up to the big day. Donors can learn more about the nonprofits participating in their community by logging on to the www.AZGives.org. Then help spread the word by joining the movement on Facebook and Twitter.
Giving is as easy is 1-2-3:
1. On March 20, visit www.AZGives.org
2. Click on "Donate"
3. Choose your nonprofit of choice and give away
Whether you give a little or give a lot, every donation will help the more than 20,000 deserving organizations statewide.
"And for those of us out there who want to give but need to be reminded, the website has a simple 'Remind Me' button anyone can click on right now," said McWhortor.
For more information, visit www.AZGives.org.
• Alison Bailin Batz is a local freelancer, public relations practitioner and member of the Arizona Gives Day promotional team.


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How To draw UML Activity Diagrams
UML Activity Diagram illustrates the business and operational step-by-step workflows of components in a system and shows the overall flow of control.
Activity diagrams are constructed from a limited number of shapes, connected with arrows. The most important shape types:
ConceptDraw has 393 vector stencils in the 13 libraries that will help you to start using software for designing your own UML Diagrams.
You can use the appropriate stencils of UML notation from UML Activity library with 37 objects.
The example "Design elements - UML activity diagrams" is included in the Rapid UML solution from the Software Development area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.
Example 1. Symbols for create UML activity diagram
Quick and easy designing the UML Activity diagrams of any complexity. Simply drag the needed objects to the document and arrange them to make a desired activity diagram.
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Middles take 2! What do you think?
Thanks for all the comments on previous post. Here's a revised list (with my thoughts on each!)
Morgana Rachel? Hedley - Love Morgana but not sure if Rachel is right in the middle... Can't think of anything better though. Any ideas - needs to not end in either a or ee sounds?
Flora Evelyn Hedley - I love this name but not sure if a bit over the top for me to use? Hubby doesn't like Evelyn. Hmm think may scratch this one...
Katherine Morgana/Jemima Hedley - Can't decide which middle name I like best with Katherine. What do you think?
Emma Katherine Hedley - I love Emma and Katherine.
Cara ? Hedley - I absolutely love Cara but can't find a good middle for it (again need one which doesn't end in a or ee sounds...) Any ideas?
Rose Matilda Hedley - I love Rose but is it too much with Rowan? Definitely prefer Matilda in the middle.
Jessica Lauren Hedley - I just love the name Jessica regardless of what everyone else thinks...
My fav name at the moment is Jessica Lauren and I love Rose. Hubby loves Emma Katherine and Jessica Lauren. We both love Morgana and Cara but only if we can find good middles for them - ideas please! Rowan now wants to name her Barbie after finding my old dolls in a box so I suppose we could go with that as a back up!!!!
Minnie x


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Photo Coverage: Temperley London S/S 2013 Collection Preview
Alice Temperley's designs have grown up. A look that started out as girlish, highly decorated party dresses has now transformed into stunningly memorable pieces worth more than a second glance.
Once the uniform of a certain type of London party girl, her frocks now merit red carpets of their own and most definitely translate across the continents. Famous for hard work and originating in a hippy haven in Somerset where her parents make cider, she has become a dress designer with staying power.
Alice Temperley graduated from London's prestigious Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art. Following the success of the launch collection in 2000 at London Fashion Week, the first Temperley London boutique opened in 2001 on Colville Mews in Notting Hill, London where the head office and design rooms are still situated.
In 2006 Alice Temperley took on New York Fashion Week - and soon afterward had a retail count of 150 stores (and counting) worldwide, including Bergdorf Goodman and Selfridges.
ALICE by Temperley, launched in 2010, is a contemporary sister line created to fulfill a need for an everyday Temperley look in a more accessible market.
(Photos courtesy of Temperley London)


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This week's Sunday Cinema was fairly easy for me to pull together. First, Kurt suggested this video from the Revs Institute briefly discussing the institute's 1969 Porsche 908 LH longtail before taking it for a hot lap around Laguna Seca during Rennsport Reunion V. * Next, McCourt sugg ... Read more
Brian Redman and Steve McQueen. Photo courtesy Brian Redman. Name a competitive sports racing car of the late 1960s and early 1970s, and chances are good that Brian Redman drove it. His resume includes time behind the wheel of the Ford GT40, the Porsche 917 and 908, the Lola T70, various Chevrons a ... Read more
1960 Porsche 356B 1600GS Carrera GTL Abarth The Porsche Museum is not one of those stuffy museums where people can look at pretty, if lifeless, automobiles that, in their immobility, are shells of their former selves. Indeed, and as you might expect from an automaker like Porsche, these beautifully ... Read more
Steve McQueen's Porsche 908 is expected to sell for between $1.5 and $2 million. photo courtesy Bonhams & Butterfields A couple of weeks after breaking his foot racing a Husqvarna dirt bike at the 1970 Lake Elsinore GP, Steve McQueen did what any self-respecting movie star-cum-amateur mo ... Read more
I mentioned a while back that I spotted the Steve McQueen's personal Porsche 908, used as a camera car for Le Mans, at Automotive Restorations in Stratford, Connecticut. Matt Litwin has been sorting though his comprehensive collection of old Motor Trends recently, and I was looking at a BMW Ba ... Read more


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Yoga is a time-honored tradition that is meant to promote physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing. However, over the past decade or so, yoga has also become a constant source of amusement for those of us who love a good fail gif. Wherever there are people filming themselves taking part in this ancient form of exercise, there will eventually be an amazing gif of them failing horribly.
Animals and Yoga GIF Fails
Life without our pets would be unimaginable for many of us. The same can be said for yoga. Unfortunately, the two don't always mix.
For example, dogs are supposed to be a man's best friend. However, sometimes they just can't help themselves. Take this pooch for example:
I mean your dog needs to get some exercise too. "What's wrong with right now? Oh, were you doing something?"
Pets aren't always the best at taking hints either:
"Stretching are we? Not a problem; I'll just crawl farther up your back. Better? Great."
Other times, pets aren't so much a distraction as they are showoffs. Here you are, trying to keep in shape and relax your mind. Good for you! Yoga is a deceptively difficult practice. It's a lot more than just stretching or standing still for a few minutes at a time.
So when you finally hit a new pose, it's a really big deal accompanied by quite the feeling of accomplishment. And it's then that your pet may decide to prove it actually wasn't that hard to do in the first place.
"What? You think all I can do is downward facing dog?"
Done with literally zero effort. If I was this dog's owner I might decide he's going without dinner.
And less you think that dogs are the only ones who can't help themselves by showing off, here's a kitten getting it done without even trying.
In fairness, that thing has a tail. That's got to be cheating.
The Ultimate Cat Yoga Fail
In fact, of all the yoga fail gifs we have, the worst one was carried out by a cat – a cute little adorable kitten that looks like it would never harm so much as a butterfly. Yeah, well, watch this:
I will never trust a cat again. If I did do yoga, I would never do it again. This gif has forever changed my life.
How Yoga Should Be Done
Finally, I'm not sure this should technically qualify as a yoga fail gif because, let's face it, most of us would consider this the most successful way to do it:
Actually, for a lot of us, drinking bottles of wine is the only way we could ever get ourselves into most yoga positions. This guy has the right idea:
See? Not so hard once you don't have pets running around trying to ruin your workout.
The world could always use more yoga fail gifs and memes. If you think you have an idea for one, give our meme generator a try and show everyone out there what happens when you try to get in shape.


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Texas A&M's OT Jake Matthews selected 6th overall by Atlanta Falcons
The Atlanta Falcons selected Texas A&M offensive tackle Jake Matthews with the sixth pick of the 2014 NFL draft on Thursday night.
Matthews was the second offensive lineman taken in the draft, joining Auburn's Greg Robinson, who went No. 2 overall to the St. Louis Rams.
"This is a great situation," said Matthews, who will likely move right into the Falcons' starting lineup at right tackle, across the line from left tackle Sam Baker.
The Falcons were in dire need of offensive line help. The Falcons ranked last in yards rushing per game in 2013, relying on pass-heavy offense led by quarterback Matt Ryan. Matthews could start alongside former Texas guard Justin Blaylock.
General manager Thomas Dimitroff took Matthews over Michigan lineman Taylor Lewan, intent on providing more protection for Ryan, who was sacked 44 times last season.
Matthews, 22, won the starting job midway through his true freshman season, hanging on to it for the rest of his college career.
He is the second Texas A&M tackle selected in the top 10 in the past two years, joining former teammate Luke Joeckel (No. 2 overall to Jaguars in 2013).
The two-time First Team All-SEC pick (2012 and 2013) was a consensus All-American during his senior season. He blocked for 2012 Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manzie
Matthews was the first Aggie picked in the draft. Teammates Manziel (quarterback) and Mike Evans (wide receiver) also were projected as first-round picks.
He is the son of NFL Hall of Fame guard Bruce Matthews.
"I'm just so proud right now," said Matthews, who will be the seventh member of his family to play in the league, also following older brother Kevin and another cousin, Casey. "I'm so proud to represent my family and an opportunity to be an Atlanta Falcon. This is awesome."
Jake Matthews
Height: 6'5
Weight: 308 pounds
Arm length: 33 3/8 inches
Hands: 9 7/8 inches
40-yard dash: 5.07 seconds
Bench press: 24 reps
3 cone drill: 7.34 seconds
20-yard shuttle: 4.47 seconds
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— The Associated Press contributed to this report


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England will play midweek tour matches in Kimberley and Potchefstroom during their three Test series against the Springboks in June, the South African Rugby Union (Saru) confirmed on Monday.
The series is a return to "traditional-style" touring which will see an England midweek team play matches at different venues as well as Tests in Durban, Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth.
England will meet a South African Barbarians South team in an afternoon match in Kimberley on Wednesday, June 13 and six days later play a SA Barbarians North team in an evening kick-off in Potchefstroom.
Saru CEO, Jurie Roux said he was confident that South African fans would be excited by the prospect of having England tour SA over three weeks.
"South Africa has not hosted a three-Test tour against a single nation since the visit of New Zealand in 1996, so this will be a special occasion for all of us," Jurie said.
"The Rugby Football Union (RFU) has also agreed to two midweek matches, which gives us the opportunity to take international rugby away from the major metropolitan centres.
"It also presents a chance for players outside of the Springbok and Super Rugby camps to demonstrate their ability against top-flight international opposition."
Roux added that the teams would be selected from the players of the eight Currie Cup First Division teams.
The England series takes place during a Super Rugby hiatus across the Southern Hemisphere.
New Zealand host Ireland in three Tests and Wales are on tour in Australia at the same time.
England Head Coach Stuart Lancaster said his team were excited by the announcement of an extended tour.
"England have never had a three-Test series in South Africa and, with two midweek games against opponents who will be desperate to impress, these five games gives us a great opportunity for a wider group of players to put their hat in the ring and gain international experience," Lancaster said.
"We were pleased with the progress we made in the Six Nations and this tour is another important step on the journey towards 1/8Rugby World Cup 3/8 2015."
England arrive in South Africa on May 31.
Tour dates: Saturday June 9: South Africa v England, King's Park, Durban
Wednesday June 13: SA Barbarians South v England, GWK Park, Kimberley
Saturday June 16: South Africa v England, Ellis Park, Johannesburg
Tuesday June 19: SA Barbarians North v England, Olen Park, Potchefstroom
Saturday June 23: South Africa v England, Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, Port Elizabeth. – Sapa


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November Volunteer Feature: The City Bar Justice Center Honors Wendy Luftig for Her Work with the Cancer Advocacy Project
The City Bar Justice Center is delighted to honor Wendy Luftig, a health care attorney, for her outstanding work with the Cancer Advocacy Project. Wendy has been an active member of the Project since 1997, and has dedicated countless hours to assisting cancer patients, survivors and their families with challenging health care concerns.
One example of Wendy's dedication involved a client with recalcitrant ovarian cancer being denied a PET scan, a type of nuclear imaging used to help make diagnoses. Wendy appealed this determination and was denied on the first appeal. Undeterred, she appealed a second time challenging, among other things, the semantic distinction between recurrent and recalcitrant ovarian cancer. The decision was reversed, allowing the client to obtain coverage for her PET scan.
Wendy says that the Cancer Advocacy Project has provided her with a different outlook on her career. "I generally represent large corporate clients," she says. "Working with clients in the Cancer Advocacy Project has provided me with a different perspective, encouraging me to become more focused on and responsive to client concerns. Securing needed medical benefits for clients confronting sometimes desperate situations, is especially gratifying," she continues. "I am convinced that vigorous legal challenges to denial decisions through programs like the Cancer Advocacy Project dramatically improve the odds that the client will be able to secure coverage for medically recommended health benefits."
Laura Mosiello, Director of the Cancer Advocacy Project, raves about Wendy and her commitment to the Project. "She is an invaluable asset to the Project," says Laura. "Not only does she take on many challenging cases, but she also volunteers for speaking engagements where she educates patients and providers on health law issues and acts as a mentor for volunteer attorneys new to the Project. As a result of her efforts, the City Bar Justice Center's Cancer Advocacy Project is increasing its scope and ability to make a difference in the lives of cancer patients." The City Bar Justice Center is excited to be able to honor Wendy for her dedication and hard won successes.


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NEW YORK (Apr. 15)
"The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School in Israel will have to emphasize much more than do most American medical schools the social aspects of medicine," Dr. Harry Grundfest, Associate Professor of Neurology at Columbia University, declared here today.
Speaking at the Academy of Medicine under the auspices of the Hadassah and the Medical Advisory Board, Dr. Grundfest said that the great emphasis must be placed on social medicine because "great segments of Israel's population come from lands where they were either subjected to the trauma of the recent horrors of Europe" or to the "endemic starvation, oppression, degrading poverty and ignorance" of the Middle East and North African ghettos.
Other speakers included Dr. Brock Chisholm, director general, World Health Organization, United Nations; Dr. Leo Davidoff, neurosurgeon at Mount Sinai Hospital and chairman of the World Health Organization-Unitarian Service Committee Medical Mission to Israel; Mrs. Samuel J. Rosensohn, national president of Hadassah and Dr. Israel Wechsler, chief neurologist of Mount Sinai Hospital. Ground will be broken for the new Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center on June 5 in the Ein Karem sector of Jerusalem.


text: Show Hide image Politics 27 April 2012 S&P downgrade Spain to BBB+ Austerity cannot save Spain from an expected contraction in 2012 and 2013, says the agency. Sign up for our weekly email * The credit ratings agency Standard and Poor's has downgraded Spanish sovereign debt, cutting it from A to BBB+. The country's outlook remains negative, indicating that the ratings agency expects the possibility of further trouble in the future. The reason given was worse than expected economic contraction: We have lowered our forecast for GDP to contract in real terms by 1.5 per cent in 2012 and 0.5 per cent for 2013. We had previously forecast real GDP growth of 0.3 per cent in 2012 and 1 per cent in 2013. . . Following budgetary slippage of 2.5% of GDP in 2011 beyond the 6.0% target, the government has committed to a target of 5.3% of GDP in 2012 and 3.0% in 2013. In our opinion, these targets are currently unlikely to be met given the economic and financial environment. In other words, S&P expect Spain to remain in recession throughout 2012 and 2013, and also think that the governing People's Party won't be able to enact their proposed austerity program. The news is bad for the Spainish government, which has seen its bond yield rise to 6 per cent since the the downgrade was announced. If the nation really does return to recession and fail to cut spending as a result, that will be much more expensive as a result of this increased cost of borrowing. But the news also hits hard at austerity advocates. Spain has been a poster child for fiscal responsibility, running a budget surplus before the financial crisis, and cutting its deficit from levels comparable with the UK and US in 2009 to far below in just two years, as this chart via Pawel Morski shows: If textbook austerity cannot save Spain from being downgraded, then proponents of the ideology – who often point to the need to keep bond markets, and by extention ratings agencies, happy – may have to rethink their defence. Despite warning of a further downgrade if debt breaches 80 per cent of GDP, in their reasoning for this one, Standard and Poor's appear to be saying that growth matters more than fiscal responsiblity, because without the former, the latter cannot occur. While that is hardly a controversial claim, it comes from a surprising source, and it will be interesting to see their response the first time a nation takes them at their word. Alex Hern is a technology reporter for the Guardian. He was formerly staff writer at the New Statesman. You should follow Alex on Twitter. Subscribe from just £1 per issue More


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AN APPLICATION has been submitted to demolish the former home of murdered Newport teenager Nikitta Grender, where she was found dead in 2011.
The application, submitted by Newport City Homes last week, proposes to demolish two flats, numbers 50 and 51, in Broadmead Park, Lliswerry.
Stating the reason for demolition, the application reads: "Number 51 Broadmead Park has been damaged by fire which resulted in a death. As an organisation we have chosen to demolish."
The body of Nikitta Grender, who was eight months pregnant, was found at the flat in Broadmead Park, Lliswerry, by fire crews on February 5, 2011. She had been brutally murdered by her boyfriend's cousin, Carl Whant.
On February 22, 2012, Carl Whant, of Newport, was convicted of murder, rape, child destruction and arson and jailed for a minimum of 35 years.
He had raped and stabbed 19-year-old Miss Grender at her home, also killing her unborn daughter and then set fire to the Newport flat before returning to a party where he had been with her boyfriend, Ryan Mayes.
Allan Morris, councillor for Lliswerry, said the decision to demolish and been a long and complicated one but he believed the right choice had been made.
He said: "I fully support the decision.
"I applaud Newport City Homes for the way they have gone about this. It's been a difficult time but the decision respects the wishes of Nikitta's family and hopefully now the area can move on."
Miss Grender's death sparked an outpouring of grief in the Lliswerry community and the rest of the city. Dozens of floral tributes and soft toys were laid along the fence outside, but the boarded-up flat is a constant reminder of what happened.
The demolition application goes on to suggest future plans for the site may be to erect a two storey house, however full plans are not confirmed at this stage.
The form states the expected time frame for the demolition to take place, to be between April and July this year.


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Los Angeles
Monday, May 6 | 6:30 pm
UCLA, Perloff Hall, decafe, Room 1302
Monica Ponce De Leon
Dean and Eliel Saarinen Collegiate Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Monica Ponce de Leon was appointed Dean and Eliel Saarinen Collegiate Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning of University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning in September, 2008. In 1991, she co-founded Office dA and has recently launched her own design practice. Dean Ponce de Leon received a Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1989 from the University of Miami and a Master of Architecture in Urban Design degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1991. She joined the Harvard Graduate School of Design faculty in 1996, where she was a Professor of Architecture and the Director of the Digital Lab. She has also held teaching appointments at Northeastern University, the Southern California Institute of Architecture, Rhode Island School of Design and Georgia Institute of Technology among others. She has received honors from the Architectural League of New York (Young Architects Award, 1997, and Emerging Voices, 2003) the American Academy of Arts and Letters (Award in Architecture, 2002), the Smithsonian Institution's Cooper- Hewitt National Design Museum (National Design Award in Architecture, 2007), and the United States Artists (Target Fellows in Architecture and Design). Her practice has received over 60 design awards including the AIA's Institute Honor Award for Architecture (Macallen Building, 2010), Wallpaper Design Awards Best New Restaurant (Banq, 2009), the AIA/LA Design Award (Helios House, 2007), the AIA/ALA Library Building Award (Fleet Library at RIS D, 2007), the AIA/Committee on the Environment's Top Ten Green Projects (MacallenBuilding, 2008), five I.D Magazine Annual Design Review Awards and twelve Progressive Architecture Awards.
Perloff Hall is located on the UCLA Campus.
Perloff Hall, M-F, 9am – 5pm
Info: 310.267.4704
Lectures take place at 6:30pm in Perloff Hall, Decafé (unless otherwise indicated) Parking is available in Lot 3 for $11, purchase parking at the Westholme Ave and Hilgard Ave kiosk. Check the website for confirmation of all programs at www.aud.ucla.edu The campus map is available at www.maps.ucla.edu/campus