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by Gayan • May 16, 2013 • Ubuntu • 2 Comments
'Skrywer' is a new distraction-free text editor for Ubuntu users. It doesn't have a lot of options, but it comes with few built-in ambient sounds (ocean waves, forest, raining, fireplace & a night outside) and I found them to be quite inspiring . It also lets you change between few font styles & sizes,...
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European Union receives Nobel Peace Prize
OSLO, Norway (AP) — The EU received the Nobel Peace Prize on Monday for promoting peace and human rights in Europe following the devastation of World War II, and the bloc was urged to use that unity in its battle with an economic crisis that is causing suffering for many of its citizens.
About 20 European government leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and Italian Premier Mario Monti, attended the ceremony in the capital of Norway, an oil-rich country that has twice rejected joining the European Union.
Not everyone approved the decision to give the prize to the EU, created 60 years ago as Europe was struggling to recover from a war that killed millions of people.
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Ahoskie Cinema 4
127 Main Street E,
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As a single screen house, the Earl Theater was operated by H.P. Howell and his Howell Circuit in the early-1960's. The theater was later twinned. It appears that the theater is now called the Ahoskie Cinema 4, as that is the message on the theater's answering machine.
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The address for this theatre should be 127 Main St. E not E. Main St.
Does anyone know if this theatre was a reverse screen theatre? Also I believe that it opened as the Richards Theatre.
I did the retro work in this theatre back in the 90's. The original was split to a twin and then later the balcony was split from the down stairs theatres creating 2 new auditoriums upstairs.
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Railroads opened Florida to new industry, expanded the tourist economy, and allowed for rapid development of residential and commercial areas. The first rail development authorized in Florida was the Tallahassee-St. Marks line, chartered in 1834. The first train to operate, however, was the Lake Wimico line that connected the boomtown of St. Joseph to the Apalachicola River in 1836. The Tallahassee-St. Marks train, which was initially mule-drawn, connected the highly productive cotton fields of Leon and Jefferson counties with the St. Marks River. These early efforts only hinted at the profound impact that railroads, passenger lines and freight trains would have on Florida's history.
Boys and crew posed with Florida Railway and Navigation Company engine number 16 (ca. 1886)
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Men standing by Barnum & Bailey Circus railroad car (19__)
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View from cotton gin: Madison, Florida (188_)
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Looking East from Ingless cotton gin toward the Ingless home in the back center.
View from cotton gin: Madison, Florida (188_)
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The logs floated to Skinner Manufacturing Company mill.
After statehood, community leaders and government leaders such as Senator David Yulee attempted to increase railway development in Florida. With state support, railroad developers began piece-meal projects to link East and West Florida, and Senator Yulee became the president of the Florida Railroad, completed in 1860, that connected the port cities of Fernandina on the northeast coast and Cedar Key on the Gulf. The Internal Improvement Act of 1855 granted companies large tracts of land in exchange for new tracks. New railway construction progressed slowly until the Civil War disrupted existing railway infrastructure.
Sells-Floto Circus train unloading (19__)
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Florida Railway and Navigation Company engine #15 at the Lanark Hotel (ca. 1885)
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The hotel was located on the Gulf of Mexico in Franklin County, and was a summer retreat for Tallahasseeans and others.
All of railroads open in Florida at the time the Civil War began experienced varying degrees of decline and destruction during the war, as well as brief periods of prosperity due to military use. Portions of Yulee's Florida railroad were destroyed by Union attack, and Yulee worked with the Florida's Confederate government to temporarily remove tracks in strategic locations in order to prevent Union forces from quickly making their way into the state's interior by train. The Confederate government moved to seize existing rails to reuse the iron for new rail lines to transport troops and supplies. Despite some cooperation between railroad owners and the Confederate government, railroad operators such as Yulee met the state's efforts to take over lines with resistance-and even legal action. During the early years of Reconstruction, Florida corporations lacked the money to pay for projects started before the war, and the political and social disarray that dominated Southern life under martial law made it difficult to begin new railroad development.
Fifteen wagonloads of oranges: Umatilla, Florida (191_)
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Loading phosphate onto railroad car (1911)
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Located in the Bone Valley, a region of Central Florida primarily centered in the four counties of Hardee, Hillsborough, Manatee and Polk. The phosphate mined there is primarily used to produce fertilizer.
Bird's-eye view showing phosphate being shipped by the Atlantic Coast Line railroad to the International Minerals Corporation factory for processing: Mulberry, Florida (1947)
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Accompanying note: "From field plant to factory for drying and final processing -- here phosphate is 14% moisture content, following process - less than 2%."
After the expansion of train lines during the 1880s-to Tampa and the West coast by Henry Plant and through Jacksonville and down the East coast by Henry Flagler-railroads connected Florida's developing industrial centers, luxury destinations, agricultural sectors and growing communities. That decade, railway mileage increased four-fold in the state. Though established 10 years earlier, the State Railroad Commission grew stronger in 1897 to better regulate passenger and freight rates and to correct transportation abuses.
Royal Poinciana guests standing beside the hotel train (1896)
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L-R: Col. Philip M. Lydig, Miss Helen Morton, Miss Gladys Vanderbilt, Miss Amy Townsend, Capt. A.T. Rose, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Miss Edith Bishop, Miss Mabel Gerry, Thomas Cushing, Edward Livingston, Dudley Winthrop, Craig Wadsworth, Miss Gertrude Vanderbilt, Lispenard Stewart, Harry P. Whitney, Miss Sybil Sherman, Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Mulberry's namesake tree (19__)
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When the railroad extended its line into the phosphate field, there was a point convenient to the four big phosphate plants (Palmetto Phosphate, Kingsford, Bone Valley and Land Pebble) in operation near a large mulberry tree. It became custom to stop the trains and unload freight near the tree, and shipments were often marked "put off at the big mulberry tree".
Gulf, Florida, and Alabama engine number 6 (1871)
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Originally owned by Pennsylvania Railroad as engine number 501; then owned by E.H. Wilson and Company in April, 1893; then owned by Cincinnati Portsmouth and Virginia as engine number 14; then owned by Norfork and Western as engine number 720, and later, number changed to 534; then owned by Southern Iron and Equipment Company as engine number 734; then owned by Gulf, Florida, and Alabama as engine number 6 in May 3, 1911.
Gulf, Florida, and Alabama Railroad Company engine number 8 (ca. 1920)
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Left to right: Victor Hutchins, conductor; Athon Hicks, fireman; Ivan Leonard, Engineer for Gulf, Florida and Alabama Railway Company, and E.W. Shaw, Engine 8's engineer; Louise Leonard, station agent. Falco was the end of the 26-mile line of the Gulf, Florida, and Alabama Railroad Company between Galliver, Fla. and Falco, Alabama. Engine 8 was used for Gulf, Florida, and Alabama Railroad Company and Louisville and Nashville's Pensacola and Atlantic Division line.
Geronimo and fellow Apache Indian prisoners on their way to Florida by train (1886)
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Geronimo is on the front row, third from right
Havanah Special met by the steamer Governor Cobb: Key West, Florida (192_)
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The history of railroads in Florida includes significant accomplishments of ambition and innovation including the construction of the Overseas Extension to the Florida East Coast Railway. Henry Flagler began the immense project in 1906 to connect Miami and mainland America-and his network of rails and hotels-to Key West. Construction of the extension entailed miles of bridges and large amounts of money, earth-moving and man-hours.
Bayside NE 11th Street: Miami, Florida (192_)
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Biscayne Boulevard in the foreground. MacArthur Causeway, Chalks Aviation, Flamingo Hotel, Miami harbor and blimp in the background.
Traveling through the orange groves: Florida (ca. 191_)
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First train in Apalachicola (19__)
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Florida East Coast Railway Company engine number 30: Fort Pierce, Florida (19__)
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Photograph taken from the water tank. Engine #30 was the northbound train; #29 was the southbound train. They were the "big events in town."
Florida East Coast Railway station: Fort Pierce (19__)
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Small open motor train: Melbourne Beach, Florida (19__)
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In addition to the large railroad systems, many "short rails" and specialized systems continued to operate in Florida. They reached rural communities and provided necessary rail transportation for industries such as timber and phosphate mining. In many locations, however, once the resources were gone, the trains soon disappeared.
Family using a railroad car of the Tavares and Gulf Railroad as a home: Tavares, Florida (ca. 191_)
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Henry Flagler disembarking train at Key West (1912)
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Flagler getting off train at Key West for official opening of extension to Key West.
Florida East Coast Railway train traveling along Overseas Extension bridge (19__)
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Car being loaded onto a train at De Leon Springs for a trip to Buffalo, New York (1912)
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Greenwire (subs. req'd) reports today:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said yesterday that he would try to bring a global warming bill to the floor before the end of summer, another indication that both sides of Capitol Hill want to send major climate legislation to President Obama during his first year in office.
I continue to believe that is both unlikely and a mistake — tactically and strategically — because "Obama can get a better climate bill in 2010." Also, given that the Senate bill is going to go through multiple committees and be quite different from the House bill, again I just don't see how Obama gets a bill on his desk this year (see "Breaking: Sen. Boxer makes clear U.S. won't pass a climate bill this year").
If environmental groups are pressuring Congress to move fast, then I think they will themselves share some blame if the bill ends up being weaker than it would have been if team Obama had the chance to move public opinion — something that is quite impossible during the next few months given the current economic collapse — or to get some serious Chinese commitment for action (see "Does a serious bill need action from China?")
Here is the full Greenwire story (and their fascinating breakdown of how each Senator is likely to vote on a potential climate bill is here):
"We have to take a whack at it," the Nevada Democrat told the Associated Press in an interview, explaining that failure to act "would be neglectful."
Reid repeated his plans to take up a more limited energy proposal during the next six-week work period that includes a national renewable electricity standard. But turning to the more complex climate issue, he added, "And then later this year, hopefully late this summer, do the global warming part of it."
Reid's comments to AP mark the first time he has disclosed a timetable for the next big floor debate on climate change. Earlier this month, Senate Environment and Public Works Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) told reporters she would move a global warming bill out of committee before the end of the year, but she deferred to Reid when asked about a floor schedule.
Reid's plans also dovetail with those of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who has pledged a first-ever floor vote this year on a climate bill. Pelosi has said she will work from a comprehensive energy and climate package that House Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) plans to mark up before Memorial Day. Pelosi is also expected to have help from the House Ways and Means Committee and several other panels that are holding hearings and considering legislation on the twin issues of global warming and energy policy.
"We have to set goals in order to get work done," a Senate Democratic aide explained today about the leadership's aggressive schedule for moving a climate bill.
Democrats and Obama face many obstacles in trying to move a climate bill. Advocates likely are within sight of a majority of votes, but it will take considerable deal-making among Democrats, let alone trying to win over a few Republicans. Heated regional debates are expected over the legislation's economic effects, as well as international trade and where and how to distribute what may amount to hundreds of billions of dollars in emission allowances.
"Given our economic challenges and the need to develop an energy strategy, I think attempting to do a climate change bill at the same time is unrealistic and frankly unadvisable," warned Marc Morano, a spokesman for Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Ranking Member Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.).
At this point, it is unclear exactly what type of global warming bill the Democratic leaders want to move this year — and in what sequence with energy. While Reid wants to keep energy and climate separate, Waxman has said he is inclined to bunch the two items together into one measure.
Speaking with reporters last week, Waxman said he had not yet discussed strategy for global warming and energy legislation with the Obama administration. "I'd be interested in their recommendations, but we'll have to make our own decisions," he said.
Cap and trade or carbon tax?
Another large question looming over Democrats is whether to advance cap and trade or a carbon tax.
Boxer, Pelosi and Waxman have all said they support cap-and-trade legislation. But according to the Washington Post, Reid yesterday left the door open on that critical question, which divides economists, environmentalists and a range of other vested interests.
"That could involve cap and trade or a carbon tax," Reid said in remarks published on the newspaper's Web site.
Obama yesterday indicated his preference for cap and trade but seemed to leave some wiggle room, too. "There are going to be a number of different ways to go after this problem," Obama said during a press conference in Ottawa with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. "You know, we've suggested a cap-and-trade system. There are other countries who've discussed the possibilities of a carbon tax."
The president's interest in climate legislation is also becoming increasingly clear.
Earlier this week, U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson told reporters that she was close to issuing an "endangerment finding" that links public health threats to climate change, a precursor to a series of federal regulations designed to limit greenhouse gas emissions across multiple sectors of the economy.
The Obama administration also must gear up for U.N.-led negotiations on a global warming treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol — with talks resuming next month in Bonn, Germany, and concluding in December in Denmark. Speaking in Canada yesterday, Obama stressed that the U.N. deadline was driving his agenda.
"We have to complete our domestic debate and discussion around these issues," he said. "My hope is, is that we can show leadership so that by the time the international conference takes place in Copenhagen that the United States has shown itself committed and ready to do its part."
And regardless of the policy, Obama insisted yesterday that he wanted to see a global warming debate — even in the face of severe economic distress.
"I think there's no country on Earth that is not concerned about balancing dealing with this issue on the environmental side and making sure that, in the midst of a severe recession, that it's not having too much of an adverse impact on economic growth and employment," Obama said.
Interest groups react
Environmental groups welcomed Reid's signal to begin action on a climate bill, with one prominent activist offering up visions of a climate bill signing ceremony in 2009.
"We applaud the majority leader for announcing a schedule that would enable Congress to deliver a bill for the president's signature before the end of the year," said David Hawkins, director of the Natural Resources Defense Council's climate center.
Tony Kreindler, a spokesman for the Environmental Defense Fund, said Reid's comments underscore the frenzied few months ahead, which will require action from Boxer and several other critical Senate panels.
"If there were any question about the Senate moving forward aggressively, this is the starting gun not only for Environment and Public Works but all the committees that have a role in developing the climate bill," Kreindler said.
But industry lobbyists are not so sure Reid and Democrats will be successful, given the current economic situation and other obstacles to moving a global warming bill.
"We have so many burdens on our manufacturing sector," said William Kovacs, vice president for environment, technology and regulatory affairs at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. "To impose substantially higher energy costs at a time when we're having a difficult time keeping jobs is a recipe for shear economic disaster. We've got enough problems. Just take a break."
That, of course, is a disingenuous argument as Kovacs knows. Even in the unlikely event a climate bill passed this year, its targets would almost certainly not kick in for a few years, and given targets that are likely to be quite modest to start with (plus the likely use of offsets), it would not impose significant costs on industry for several years after that.
Scott Segal, an industry attorney, predicted "substantial activity" on a climate bill this year.
"Whether that activity will yield a bill ready for the president to sign by end of the year clearly remains to be seen," Segal said. "The Congress must do its homework on any climate change legislation. Without sufficient cost containment, technological assumptions and international provisions, a climate change bill has the potential to reverse the stimulus the Congress just enacted while failing to achieve environmental objectives."
Related Posts:
- What are the prospects for climate legislation in the House?
- Is 450 ppm politically possible? Part 6: What the Boxer-Lieberman-Warner bill debate tells us
6 Responses to Reid: Global warming bill on Senate floor "hopefully late this summer"
Great information, thanks Joe.
Team Obama can move some public opinion, but the real power of persuasion will be from actual pain and aggravation of climate events. Spring and Summer will bring more than the usual extreme storms, real heat waves, water rationing, fires, floods, and other calamities.
Team Obama has two challenging messages to deliver: that weather related events are linked to global warming and that CO2 is the greenhouse gas that makes warming worse.
It seems to me that by carrying these messages we can lighten the load that Team Obama will need to carry – then perhaps hastening a bill.
And as far as holding out for a better bill, there will be plenty of climate stimulus to push more legislation.
I knew it, women are to blame…
Global warming 'bigger problem than economy'
Climate change is a bigger problem than the struggling British economy, a Government minister said today.
"We are facing big issues about the economy at the moment but the really big issue we face at the moment is climate change which can have a devastating impact on all of us," he said."The clothing industry is responsible for lots and lots of greenhouse gas emissions."
Please, let's support the carbon tax (or 'use fee') and rebate program that Jim Hansen and others have suggested. Cap and trade's only benefit is that it isn't called a tax–and thus politicans can support it with less risk.
Why did the price of butter pecan ice cream shoot up and why did I find none of it today? Did the pecan crop fail? Yes, there is something more important than the economy. It is called food, and global warming is already cutting into our supply of food. Food is an adequate issue to convince almost everybody.


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Over this past weekend yet another virus/Trojan/worm/whatnot attack culminated in a lot of panic. Apparently, far too many systems were infected with this latest disease, and the Net was once again choking on the aftereffects. Probably the blackout in New York and much of the Northeast saved us because it simply took machines offline.
This new attack, which infects Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, and XP machines that have not been recently updated, goes by Lovesan and Blaster, among other names. One message it produced was "I Love You San." Has anyone even wondered who the heck San is? Track her or him down and get to the bottom of this latest scourge.
Here's my solution to this problem: a license to use computers. It's time we realize that national security is at risk, as is the future of the Internet and modern business. These attacks are never going to end, that's now obvious. Many are direct strikes against the infrastructure, such as the DNS attacks of late. Others are assaults on specific systems, such as the near ruination of the IRC network DALnet. Once in a while, a direct attack against specific Web sites takes place. Professional network administrators, who can control things to a certain extent, deal with all these sorts of attacks. When the White House site was about to be attacked, the administrators changed the IP addresses. Over this past weekend, Microsoft modified its Windows Update address just enough to foil the expected bot attack.
The problem of the future is going to be the virtual destruction of the Net and small businesses by end users, who are clueless to an extreme. These people should have their computers confiscated unless they can pass a minor proficiency test. What does it take to be a little careful without being ridiculously careful? Most users are totally out of it. For example, I know one person who will not open a JPEG, ever. This is pointless. Others see spoofed e-mail from a "friend" who writes in pidgin English and includes a weird attachmentwhich they click on immediately. "Did you got my last note. I send again. Please read." Oh, okay!
The creepy worm viruses such as Lovesan don't scare me. The Klez type of attacktriggered by the dopey e-mail attachmentwill be the problem.
The expertsin the industry overall and at Microsoft, specificallyare addressing none of this. Outlook sucks at protecting users, and Microsoft has done nothing. The company has also chosen to give users the wrong defaults, so file extensions are hidden unless you track down the settings to make them visible. Why? So Windows systems can appear more like Macs? Or what? I can do a whole column on dumb defaults.
Then there are the experts, many of whom still say you should not open an attachment unless you know the person who sent it to you. I keep seeing this recommendation. Let's get this part straight. Almost all of the current e-mail virus and attack programs use a randomly selected name from the host system's address book as the sender's name on infected messagesthen they send the virus to everyone else in the address book. The likelihood of people whose names are in the same address book recognizing each other's names is quite high. So it's okay to open an attachment included in e-mail from a friend or associate? Not hardly!
I'm predicting that if one of the notes accompanying a virus is ever well written, we are all doomed because dummies all over the country will flood the Net with viruses by clicking on the attached "spreadsheet." Of course, the file will actually be spreadsheet.exe or spreadsheet.pif or whatever. But the users would never see the .exe or the .pif extension since Microsoft sets defaults the wrong way.
Meanwhile, we still hear the advice that things are okay if a piece of mail comes from a friend. Believe me, I have thought about this over and over. The only solution is licensing. How many years did we take to realize that driving a car requires a license? The first autos were on the road with no licenses. There was blood in the streets, and the continued blood is the legacy.
I was at a friend's house, recently and was looking at his computer. I decided it needed more memory. I took out the 256MB memory card to see what type it was, and my friend panicked, thinking he'd lost all his files. "They are on the hard disk," I assured him. "Really? Whew!" he said. Then I'm thinking to myself, "This is 2003 and this guy has no clue about how this computer works on the most mundane level. It's just a matter of time before a serious virus rolls over the Net, blows up the DNS, overloads the system, and initiates a hard disk erasure of the infected machinesall at once." That's what we have to look forward to. Count on it.
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- 4x4 Hatta Day Trip to Heritage Village and Desert Rocks
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The first stop is at Hatta Heritage Village. Drive through the desert to see Fossil Rock and Camel Rock, an unusual rock formation hidden among the dunes.
Enjoy a picnic lunch en route. After lunch the drive continues passing by the sand dunes on the way back.
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This was our best day in Dubai. If you are not a shop alchoholic! Really loved it and our guide was excellent. A very intelligent Indian man full of information and knowledge and provided a really good day. Even saw camels roaming and villages. Only issue lunch - not Arabic food but burgers! Would really recommend this day. My two teenagers loved it too.
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You may have noticed a certain frenzy around Groupon in recent days, as speculation swirled about the fate of the daily-deals pioneer's chief executive, Andrew Mason. More specifically, that the company's board would discuss at a meeting on Thursday whether he should remain in his post.
Well, here's what happened at that regularly scheduled meeting: not much.
A Groupon spokesman, Paul Taaffe, told DealBook on Thursday afternoon that the board and the management team were "aligned." For now, it appears, Mr. Mason isn't going anywhere.
He added: "The board and management are focused on the performance of the company, and they are all working with their heads down to achieve their objectives."
That doesn't mean that everything is well at Groupon, once lauded as one of the fastest-growing members of the new generation of Internet companies. Its shares have fallen 83 percent in the year and change that it has been publicly traded.
And questions still swirl about the long-term viability of the daily-deals business. Groupon's closest competitor, LivingSocial, announced on Thursday that it would cut 400 jobs, or about 10 percent of its work force.
Mr. Mason seems to be aware of the depths of the problems he faces.
"When your stock is down 80 percent, your board is going to ask if you're doing the right things," he said at Business Insider's Ignition conference on Wednesday.
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February 20, 2013
Five days a week I drive to work in the same car I have owned since mid-2006. As time goes by, what seemed like good features now are seeming more like things that should be as standard as wheels.
I bought a new 2007 Toyota Camry LE back then. The entire Camry line had been renovated with a new style, and it was definitely a nice car back then. My mom bought a Toyota Avalon -- Toyota's luxury class sedan compared to the Camry in the large class -- less than a year earlier, and I still liked my car better despite the lack of built-in GPS and fancy heated and cooled seats.
I'm not saying those seats aren't awesome. I just thought the Camry was more me.
So I came across this article on CNET late Tuesday -- CNET: Six tech features that should be standard in every new car -- and it got me thinking even more about some upgrades I would like to make. Or maybe even things I would like to see when I'm shopping for my next car. I'm hoping that date is a decade away, so I'm all about upgrades.
Since my iPhone rarely leaves my hip, I have been looking at some better ways to integrate what most smartphones can do into what most cars can do. I have the Camry factory audio system, which at least looks fancy but is still a factory unit. When the iPad mini was unveiled last year, it took about a week before I found a video of some car shop that rigged up a Toyota Corolla with an iPad mini to control a lot of the audio features.
Just take my money!
In short, that's what I wish every car had -- something as powerful as a tablet computer to do just about anything you wanted. With my iPhone, I listen to music, play podcasts, get navigation directions, find local businesses, keep track of fuel mileage, etc. etc. It's all using a touchscreen device that you can sync with a computer or cloud storage to back up your files or export some of them to other applications.
If you find a car with some sort of computer system in it, you will be lucky for it to adhere to any kind of standard. Toyota will do its own thing, Ford will go another direction, GM will go yet another. At least with our tablets and smartphones, developers will lean toward such things as exporting data into a spreadsheet, comma-separated value or XML file. Since these are fairly standard, you can import them into a variety of applications that adhere to that same standard.
Same thing goes with audio input. My mom's car had no auxiliary input device for her sound system. My car has a 3.5 mm jack, the same as most headphone outputs on a variety of audio devices. Some cars now add a USB port, which is becoming the mother of all digital standards. Bluetooth keeps making its way into many models, and I have seen a system or two that fake a WiFi network.
It really shouldn't be this difficult.
The CNet article mentions a lot of good items that really need to be standard in any car built today. USB ports all over the place is chief among them. Considering the fact that almost every portable electronic will go from one kind of port to a standard USB port, this means everybody could juice up devices from their seat instead of running cords and adapters from what used to be known as cigarette lighters. Trust me, putting in about 10 ports all around the car would be nothing in the grand scheme of a $20,000 vehicle.
Rear-view cameras are also great and could save numerous lives. But cameras facing forward and with DVR technology could also help save lives and cut down on insurance fraud. Someone backed into my car while I was stopped at a red light about three years ago. When the cops came, he lied his backside off and said I hit him. I was behind him, so I got a ticket. No evidence whatsoever that it was my fault and I get an $80 ticket plus the bill for repair.
The meteorite explosion in Russia showed off a lot of Russians with dashboard cameras. Apparently fraud is so rampant in Russia that it's a no-brainer investment. I have looked up some on Amazon, and it looks like you can get a unit with cameras that face front and back for about $80. If that had been installed in my car, it would've paid for itself. If I had these items when I was involved in a hit-and-run, I wouldn't have had to chase the guy down at crazy speeds just to get his tag. When you drive a four-cylinder car, it's tough to catch a guy who is willing to run stop signs.
But what could really make our cars better would be to get rid of a huge panel of switches, knobs and buttons.
My car is relatively clean compared to some consoles I have seen. But still, it's a lot of buttons for not a lot of functionality. Plus it has a CD player. Yuck.
Automakers need to make the realization that mobile device and tablet makers have realized for about the past five years: physical buttons are on the way out. With the console I just showed you, the controls are limited to those buttons. However, run everything electronic into a central computer and the options are as numerous as software upgrades. Plus the manufacturer could develop something like extremely large buttons on a touchscreen display so you have the option of just volume, temperature and fan speed while driving.
I know a lot of this seems costly, and half of it is probably more of the "want" than "need" variety. But as that CNet article mentioned, seat belts, anti-lock brakes and air bags also used to be costly options. Now you can't find a car without them. Considering the fact that we pay upward of $20,000 for most new cars, you think manufacturers could get behind some of these features. Some of them pay for themselves, and others may end up saving your life.
Plus we all love good tunes, right?
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Updated: February 4, 2013
A Shreveport teenager faces felony charges for alleged inappropriate behavior with a young girl.
Caddo Parish authorities said they warned Jules Sompayrac, 17, to stay away from his 13-year-old girlfriend after he was taken into custody last December for having consensual sex with her.
Ten days later, Sompayrac engaged in video sex chats with the girl via Skype and took nude photos of the victim which he then sent back to her on her Ipod.
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Year Built: 1959
Wingspan: 25'
Cruise/Top Speed: Sub-sonic
Gross Weight: 1,000 lbs
Engine: 85 hp Continental
General History
This Road Air was the first prototype, and last production model built by Herbert Trautman. The idea of making a car that could fly had always been a fascination for Herb. The idea for a plane/car combination was first conceived of in the aviation pioneer days prior to World War I but technical limitations of the time prevented any serious progress to be made. Interest was rekindled in the late 1920's when ideas and activity flourished. A few successful projects flew and all had one thing in common, they were neither good cars nor good airplanes. The depression squelched any further interest until after World War II.
A gentleman by the name of Fulton, designed a flying car that the U.S. Navy actually backed during the war. It first flew in 1946. By the time this 'Obese Piper Tri-Pacer' look-alike was certified in 1950, Herb Trautmann had begun construction of the Road Air. Unfortunately, the performance of the Fulton Airphibian could not keep up with the demands of powerful turnpike cruisers that the American public was looking for. In 1952, the Fulton Aircraft Company was disbanded. Undaunted, Herb continued to build his dream car until it was completed in 1959.
After finishing his dream flying car, Herb was ready for his maiden flight. Herb climbed in, locked the hatch, started the Road Air and began to taxi. Feeling comfortable he began to get the feel of the Road Air on faster and faster runs. Finally, he lined up into the wind, applied full power and headed down the runway. At about 90 mph the Road Air lifted off the ground to about 3 feet. As Herb soon began to loose control, he set the Road Air back on the runway averting disaster. After going home to clean his underwear, he put it in storage, never to be flown again. Personal History When Kermit purchased the Tallmantz Collection in 1985 the Road Air was on loan for display by Mr. Trautmann. When packing the collection for shipment to Florida, Herb, in his eighties, came out for a visit to decide what to do with his aircraft. He had no place to store it and when Kermit offered to take it back to Florida, Mr. Trautman signed over a Bill of Sale and gave it to him on the spot.
In 1996 the Road Air was restored to run-able condition. It is sometimes taken by trailer to trade shows and events as an attention getter to help promote Fantasy of Flight. On one promotional outing, the Road Air was taken down to the local U.S.A. Speedway and driven around the track for a quick demonstration.
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With the engine running, the fixed-pitch pusher prop provides the thrust to move the car forward down the road and for flight. There are brakes to stop the Road Air, but there is no provision for backing up. To get the aircraft ready for flight, the cockpit front hatch is opened and handles are pulled to open doors that are located on the outside lower part of the Road Air's body. The wings are folded out where they lock in place and the doors are shut tight. Controls are similar to an aircraft with a control column and rudder pedals. To drive the Road Air, the pedals that operate the flight rudders in the rear also turn the front wheels for steering on the ground.
You don't always get what you want, but you always get what you need. Maybe it was destiny that the Road Air ended up here in Florida to show to the world one man's Fantasy of Flight.
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Human Exploration Missions
For more than 50 years, Lockheed Martin heritage companies have led the way in the design and production of spacecraft that have helped scientists understand our planet from a new perspective. When we look to the skies, the Lockheed Martin legacy of space exploration via spacecraft, observatories, scientific instruments and payloads has enabled thousands of scientists and researchers to explore and broaden our understanding of the universe.
NASA and industry partners such as Lockheed Martin are combining talents to launch a bold new era of space exploration. With Orion, NASA will launch America's next generation of spacecraft to carry humans beyond low Earth orbit and out into the cosmos. With incremental missions at Lagrangian Points and asteroids, Lockheed Martin has charted a series of increasingly challenging human exploration missions on the path to Mars.
Called Stepping Stones, these missions map out an affordable and incremental approach to deep space exploration that will ensure U.S. leadership in human space flight. Along the way, these missions will spawn new scientific breakthroughs and new technologies that will benefit the people of Earth and inspire our next generation of leaders and discoverers.
At Lockheed Martin, we're committed to space exploration and everything it stands for…every step of the way.
L2- Farside Mission
Exploring the Moon's Farside is an early goal of the Stepping Stones sequence of missions, which use the Orion spacecraft to explore incrementally more distant destinations beyond Low Earth Orbit, beginning with the Moon, then asteroids, and culminating in a trip to the moons of Mars. The second Lagrange Point (L2) is a location where the combined gravity of the Earth and Moon allows a spacecraft to be synchronized with the Moon in its orbit around the Earth, so the spacecraft is relatively stationary over the Farside of the Moon. Learn more
Accessible Asteroids
In the last decade, astronomers searching for hazardous asteroids that might impact Earth have discovered a few dozen small asteroids with orbits that make them easier to visit than any previously known asteroid – possibly even easier than the Moon. Sending astronauts to explore these asteroids and return samples to Earth would advance key scientific, planetary defense, and exploration goals. We would learn about the structure and composition of asteroids which may threaten Earth in the future. We would learn how to operate in deep space for months at a time – a necessary first step towards missions to Mars. For these reasons, exploring the asteroids is one of NASA's next major goals. Learn more
Preparing for Mars
The objective of the Stepping Stones series of missions is to affordably and incrementally build towards America's goal of sending humans to explore Mars with our international partners, accomplishing important science objectives along the way. The penultimate step is the Red Rocks mission to send astronauts to investigate Deimos, the outermost of Mar's two small moons. They will also explore the surface of Mars remotely by guiding robots in real time to gather prime samples of Martian rocks and atmosphere for return to Earth, using skills developed during earlier missions over the farside of Earth's Moon.


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Totem and Taboo
Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics (German: Totem und Tabu: Einige Übereinstimmungen im Seelenleben der Wilden und der Neurotiker) is a 1913 book by Sigmund Freud. It is a collection of four essays first published in the journal Imago (1912–13) employing the application of psychoanalysis to the fields of archaeology, anthropology, and the study of religion: "The Horror of Incest"; "Taboo and Emotional Ambivalence"; "Animism, Magic and the Omnipotence of Thoughts"; and "The Return of Totemism in Childhood".[1]
Géza Róheim considered Totem and Taboo one of the great landmarks in the history of anthropology, comparable only to Edward Burnett Tylor's Primitive Culture and Sir James George Frazer's The Golden Bough.[2] René Girard comments that, "Contemporary criticism is almost unanimous in finding unacceptable the theories set forth in Totem and Taboo," and that, "Everyone seems intent on covering Totem and Taboo with obloquy and condemning it to oblivion." Girard views the work differently, noting that Freud's concept of collective murder is close to the themes of his own work.[3]
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Freud examines the system of Totemism among the Australian Aborigines. Every clan has a totem (usually an animal, sometime a plant or force of nature) and people aren't allowed to marry those with the same totem as themselves. Freud examines this practice as preventing against incest. The totem is passed down through hereditary, either through the father or the mother. The relationship of father is also not just his father, but every man in the clan that, hypothetically, could have been his father. He relates this to the idea of young children calling all of their parents' friends as aunt's and uncles. There are also further marriage classes, sometimes as many as eight, that group the totems together, and therefore limit a man's choice of partners. He also talks about the widespread practices amongst the cultures of the Pacific Islands and Africa of avoidance. Many cultures do not allow brothers and sisters to interact in any way, generally after puberty. Men aren't allowed to be alone with their mothers-in-law or say each others' names. He explains this by saying that after a certain age parents often live through their children to endure their marriage and that mothers-in-law may become overly attached to their son-in-law. Similar restrictions exist between a father and daughter, but they only exist from puberty until engagement.
- ^ Freud, Sigmund (1918). Totem and Taboo. New York: Moffat Yard and Company. p. iii.
- ^ Robinson, Paul (1990). The Freudian Left. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. p. 89. ISBN 0-8014-9716-7.
- ^ Girard, Réne (2005). Violence and the Sacred. The Athlone Press: Continuum. p. 204. ISBN 0-8264-7718-6.
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- Totem and Taboo on Wikisource
- Extracts from Totem and Taboo
- Totem und Taboo German edition, Open Library
- Totem and Taboo English translation by Dr. A.A. Brill 1918 free online


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----- Original Message ----- From: Maud & Torsti To: firstname.lastname@example.com Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 9:25 PM Subject: [working-gundog] Observationes I have to write this before I go north and forget about the whole thing. Briz and Maud made well in the British team that beat the German team and the Brittany team in the Birddog match. When they came home in the evening I noticed how very unusually happy, pleased, proud, jolly (choose the word/s you prefer) Briz was. We know that our dogs catch our mood and of course Maud was happy too, but I believe that it is not the entire truth, since it was not the first time Maud had been very pleased with Briz. I believe that Briz caught the very pleased spirit of the entire team that most likely had been excited and happy from the moment on the trial day when they started to understand that they will win the competition. Hence she had been subjected to a very positive atmosphere during many hours and together with the teams other dogs had felt that they were part of something very important. So I guess that here we have something that we could remember in our everyday life with our dogs. Maud made an other observation during the artificial retrieve test that day. Cold birds were hidden and shots were fired and one by one the dogs had to find and fetch a number of the birds. While waiting for their turn the German breeds and the Brittany's were eagerly whining and barking and then when their turn came they worked with joy and determination in this artificial situation. The British breeds however just sat there and looked bored and were totally un-interested by the artificial test and probably thought that the other breeds were stupid when they could not see that this is not hunting. The British breeds worked by obedience only and showed no enthusiasm whatso ever for the task. On the field the same dogs made nice retrieves on freshly shot game and usually they are difficult to prevent from retrieving on fall. I think this explains the difference between the versatile and the setters (I do not know the pointer well enough to include it). The setter can only be excited by real hunting, they are nothing else but pure gundogs and generally speaking they have no interest in any other work. This was also the aim when they were created. They did not even have to fetch the game, only to find it and point it and flush it and be beautiful with speed and style and stamina. Therefore I am also more and more convinced that we are wrong here in Sweden when we demand our setters to fetch cold game in a trial, should the gun miss the flushed bird or not be able to shoot. It simply is not natural to demand a setter to do something it is not bred to understand. In Norway they understand the setters(and pointers) better. In trials they shoot with a starting pistol just to make sure the dog is steady to gunfire but they never shoot the bird. Therefore they never come into an artificial situation when they have to test the dog on cold game. And therefore they never put out excellent gundogs just because the dogs do not understand to do something that never happens in a real hunting situation! (In Sweden a dog that do not retrieve cold game is put out of the trial, no matter how good it is otherwise) Torsti Borta Med Vindens Kennelwww.rospigan.net "Merciful God the Almighty!Deprive me my common sense so that I can at least to some extentaccomplish my commitments as a citizen of the European Union!."